Re: HFSPLus driver for Linux 2.6.

[Matthias Urlichs]

Hi, Andrew Morton wrote:

> Dylan Griffiths <dylang+kernel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> 	I don't remember where I grabbed this driver, I only know it's much
>>  more current than the one at
>>  http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-hfsplus.
> 
> Sorry, that's a showstopper.  We need to understand who the maintenance
> team is, and evaluate their preparedness to maintain this code long-term.
> 
That probably was http://www.ardistech.com/hfsplus/. Their latest release
is from mid-December.

> We don't want to be adding yet another rarely-used filesystem which has no
> visible maintenance team.
> 
The Mac-m68k and the Mac-PPC people would probably disagree about the
"rarely-used" part. I do agree that adding a filesystem, no matter how
widely used, without at least somebody to liaise between the kernel people
and the authors is a bad idea.

-- 
Matthias Urlichs
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