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Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2025 11:10:42 UTC
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Author: Sanchit Sahay <ss19723@nyu.edu>
AuthorDate: 2025-07-13 10:49:21 +0000
Commit: Lorenzo Salvadore <salvadore@FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: 2025-07-13 11:10:14 +0000
Status/2025Q2/hfs.adoc: Add report
Reviewed by: status (Chris Moerz <freebsd@ny-central.org>)
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+=== Porting HFS+ to FreeBSD
+
+Links: +
+link:https://github.com/stupendoussuperpowers/freebsd_hfs[Project Home] URL: link:https://github.com/stupendoussuperpowers/freebsd_hfs[] +
+
+Contact: Sanchit Sahay <ss19723@nyu.edu>
+
+HFS+ (Hierarchical File System) is a legacy filesystem introduced by Apple for its BSD-based XNU operating systems.
+Although HFS+ has been deprecated in favor of APFS, it is still in use on many older Apple devices, such as iPods, which rely on HFS+ volumes for storage.
+
+While many modern operating systems include native support for HFS+, FreeBSD currently offers only limited functionality via FUSE.
+This project aims to address that limitation by porting the original, now open-sourced HFS+ implementation to the FreeBSD kernel as a native filesystem driver.
+
+The primary focus of this effort is to modernize the VFS layer to align with current FreeBSD interfaces and to adapt XNU-specific logic to their FreeBSD equivalents.
+
+Features implemented:
+
+* Mount support for HFS, HFS+ Volumes
+* Read, stat support for directories and files
+* Create support for directories and files
+* mount_hfs binary