Hi Vyacheslav, I was looking for powerpc emulation for a different purpose, and came upon this collection of ideas. Apple have released the bare darwin OS (kernel, command-line utils, etc without the Mac OS X GUI on top) as an installable ISO, I think darwin 8 is roughly equivalent to Mac OS X 10.4 . But as far as the file system driver is concerned, it should be sufficient for your needs for HFS+ inter-op. So if you have a spare computer, you can just install it... http://www.opensource.apple.com/static/iso/ I am thinking of making a powerpc instance with PearPC (since I have other use of that) - apparently it work well enough, but the x86 install probably can work with an x86 emulator/vmware, etc. That means you can simulate unclean shutdown, etc by killing the emulator in the middle of something, etc. and "mount -o loop -t hpfsplus" the image" should roll the journal, etc, right? Hin-Tak -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html