Think MOL? I've never used it, but I would hate to block its use on Fedora. I'm planning to use it someday. On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 3:12 AM, Chris Murphy <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Feb 2, 2012, at 6:45 PM, John Reiser wrote: > >>> Does anyone object [to dropping support for HFS]? >> >> Plain HFS has no journal, so there are workloads where HFS is faster >> than HFS+ which has a journal. > > Mac OS Extended or HFS+ or HFS Plus, does not inherently have a journal. There is a separate variant called Journaled HFS+ (acronym appears as HFSJ or jhfs+). There is yet another variant called HFSX which is case-sensitive, but also has more feature potential than HFSJ. > > For nearly nine years Apple's tools have only created HFSJ/jhfs+ by default. Most of the reason for supporting HFS at all lies in seriously old legacy software. Much older than nine years. >> Is it economical to cater to such cases? >> Probably not. retro computing? Maintaining access to pre-historic data? (I keep thinking I want to get MOL or an equivalent emulator running on a Linus box so I can dump my ancient 68K macs like my wife wants me to. There's a sentimental resistance to dumping those boxes, but I haven't booted either in over a year, I think. Wait. I played around with an old Codewarrior compiler on one last summer. Heh.) >> [...] > HFS is dead. I'm not even finding a partition type GUID for it, it was always intended to be used with the APM partitioning scheme (not MDB or GPT). Well, yeah, the partition type was a kind of half-baked attempt to help DOS-world OSses ignore Mac disks. I don't remember the flag number and I couldn't find it last time I looked, either. I think it got re-used by something more meaningful in the DOS-world. But, no, HFS isn't really dead. Old formats should not be allowed to die. I do want to be able to read my old media under emulation someday. Apple doesn't care, but I do. Sentimental fool that I am. :-/ -- Joel Rees -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
