Re: MacOS file system ?

Craig B Agricola (agricolc@agricola.btv.ibm.com)
Mon, 2 Mar 1998 10:30:18 -0500 (EST)


> Hi.
>
> I'm using kernel 2.0.33 at the present time, and I often exchange
> ZIP disks with our local newspaper editors. They are using Power
> Macs, and the disks I receive from them contain crippled file-
> names but a resource.frk directory. It would be very interesting
> to have the zip disks read/writeable with the MacOS fs. Will that
> be supported in the near future?
>
> Regards,
> Gerry

There is MacOS filesystem support already available, but you will
have to do a little bit of work (not much). There are two routes.
There is a loadable module for the kernel, but I haven't used it
much other than in my test MkLinux environment. The web page to
look at for putting it into i386 Linux is (I believe)

http://www-sccm.Stanford.EDU/~hargrove/HFS/

You can also use the HFS user space utilities. I use these
occasionally under my i386 Linux setup, and they work wonderfully.
If you don't want to screw around with a kernel module and all the
headache, and you are willing to use a set of tools that are pretty
comparable to the mtools (for accessing DOS filesystems), I would
suggest these. Look at

http://www.mars.org/home/rob/proj/hfs/

Hope one of them works for you.

-Craig

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