FreeBSD 6.0 and Mac File System

[Hunter Fuller]

On  03 May 2006, at 11:38 PM, FreeBSD mailing list wrote:

>
> On 29 apr 2006, at 15:28, Yousef Raffah wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 09:11 -0400, John Cruz wrote:
>>> I don't know about HFS, but you can format your mac drives with  
>>> UFS when
>>> you do a clean install of MacOS, at least then FreeBSD would be  
>>> able to
>>> read them.
>>>
>> You are right but this isn't my case here :(, I have an external HD
>> which has HFS(+) file system on it and I want to use it with my  
>> FreeBSD
>> 6.1-RC1
>>
>> Any chances?
>
> Mac OSX can't be installed onto a UFS formatted drive as far as I know
Yeah, it can.

> Most OSX programs won't run on it either
> you can format partitions or drives other than the system drive  
> with UFS not only at the installtion
>
>>
>>> Yousef Raffah wrote:
>>>> What is the status of reading/writing to Mac's file system (HFS)  
>>>> or is
>>>> it HFS+?
>
> it is HFS+ for Mac OS 8.1 and later
>
>>>> Are they supported in FreeBSD 6.0? How about 6.1-RC? Can we
>>>> write to that file system or only read at moment? Is it safe?  
>>>> I'm trying
>>>> to find something in the /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/NOTES file but  
>>>> nothing
>>>> is promising so far
>>>>
>
> http://people.freebsd.org/~yar/hfs/
>
> add this to your kernelconfig file:
> option          GEOM_APPLE      # Apple HFS+ support
>
> I was able to compile it on FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE-p6 but haven't had  
> the time to check if it actually works.
>
>
> google for iPod and FreeBSD for more info :)
>
> Arno
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