Hi Hin-Tak, On Thu, 2014-02-06 at 13:45 +0000, Hin-Tak Leung wrote: > 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? > Thank you for the advice. I'll consider this way. Currently, I have for testing two MacMini with different versions of Mac OS X for testing. And I use external flash sticks and external drives for testing. I suppose that such way gives more freedom for generation different HFS+ volumes' configurations (block size, journal size and so on) and states (workloads, journal content, journal state and so on) under Mac OS X than it can be achieved for rootfs. Also, such way gives more precise way for sudden power-off emulation, I suppose. But, anyway, your suggestion can be useful, I think. Thanks, Vyacheslav Dubeyko. -- 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
