HFS+ on FreeBSD (was Re: 5.1-RELEASE-p11 - ACPI panic during shutdown, USB panic w/ USB2 HD)

Doug White dwhite at gumbysoft.com
Mon Dec 8 12:27:30 PST 2003


On Sun, 7 Dec 2003, Nick Sayer wrote:

>
> On Dec 7, 2003, at 1:35 PM, Doug White wrote:
>
> >
> > Can't help you on the ehci/umass issue though.  I have a USB disk that
> > will at least read ok, but since its HFS+ I can't mount it.
>
> Oh, well, I have that one licked. :-)
>
> You need to add 'options GEOM_APPLE' to your kernel, then you can go
> get the HFS+ support from http://people.freebsd.org/~yar/hfs/ . Many
> props to yar for his work.

cool!  I didn't know there was a geom attachment for the apple slice
table.  Thanks for the pointer.

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