On 5 April 2014 03:02, Hin-Tak Leung <htl10@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> - I have a more re-produce'able recipe of making disk images with strange >>> location of 2nd volume header using hdiutil (Apple's loopback mounting, etc disk image >>> manipulation tool). At some point we should re-visit this issue. >> >>Well, present your recepie. But! There is only one proper placement for this header. All other placements are improper, and the spec even explicitly gives one example of an improper placement. I imagine no ways to get it wrong. I see no need for any elaborate code for finding the 2nd header. >> > > Apple owns the spec, and owns the rights of interpretation and mis-interpretation of it, > and they are not bound by it, and they can freely deviate and change their minds, etc. it > is not an iso spec, it was not submitted to external bodies for standardization - it > is just provided as is. > > You can say Appple's tool is wrong - but a more pragmatic way of seeing it, is that > they don't have to keep the spec up to date or correct; keeping the spec up to date > is going to cost somebody's time to do so; there is no business incentive to > spend the engineering hours to keep the spec up to date. Their tools/implementations > in software is more authoritative than the words in the spec. > > hdiutil is Apple proprietary software. source code is not available. So what is the recipe? I'll make a patch if there really is a bug in the driver. -- 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
