Yar Tikhiy has ported Apple’s HFS and HFS Plus filesystem module and tools from Darwin to FreeBSD 5. He says that the port is experimental – he is looking for your help with testing and feedback. Read the announcement at BSDForums.
MacOS HFS and HFS Plus ported to FreeBSD 5.x
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If only someone would port FreeBSD’s UFS2 code to Darwin…
Ok, I’m on it. When would you like it? Tomorrow?
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Yesterday, of course.
I’d prefer a port of OpenBFS to FreeBSD
if one could get Aqua running on FreeBSD
well soon you migth be able to try in netbsd
i think they where working on binary compability with osx.
Does FreeBSD support Mac-style partition tables? Now I only need a Windows port of that so I can use my external 1394-drive with HFS+ on both my Mac and PC
If FreeBSD would handle my harddisk correctly, it would be great, no doubt. But I only get resetting ata devices… and non-empty Soft Update buffers destroying the whole UFS partition at shutdown
And if NetBSD would not know negative free disk spaces, eg. -5123 bytes free, 102% disk usage
We have an apple, so I would perhaps be able to test this HFS support if FreeBSD worked.
I wonder if it would be possible to use FreeBSD on i386 with HFS+
If only someone would port FreeBSD’s UFS2 code to Darwin…
If I remember correctly, there was a freebsd5 news posting on http://www.macslash.org. There was a comment from an apple developer, saying that they would definetly look into ufs2. A plain port isn’t enough offcourse, to keep backwards compatibility, it needs support for resource forks and such.
This is great! Now you can use an iPod with FAT or HFS+ formatting on your FreeBSD PC. That was a big obstacle that the Linux iPod tools team had to overcome.
There is a PC tool, I forget the name, that will do this without needing any other software…. I used to use it to read Mac HFS CD Rom partitions… Have a look of some of the Mac Emulation sites – something like Emaculation (if it still exists) or maybe a link from the Basilink II site.
I think it was called HFV Explorer. Take a look at http://gamma.nic.fi/~lpesonen/HFVExplorer though it looks to only support HFS not HFS+.
The latest http://gnustep.org provides an awesome base for advanced GUI applicaitons on FreeBSD. OpenSTEP, which GNUStep is based upon, is also the base of the MacOSX application kit.