Hello Viacheslav, On Wed, 2025-04-16 at 17:56 +0000, Viacheslav Dubeyko wrote: > I contributed to HFS+ file system driver more than 10 years ago. And I was > completely discouraged because nobody maintained the HFS+ code base. But I would > prefer to see the HFS+ in kernel tree instead of complete removal. As far as I > can see, we are still receiving some patches for HFS/HFS+ code base. Nowadays, I > am mostly busy with CephFS and SSDFS file systems. But if we need more > systematic activity on HFS/HFS+, then I can find some time for HFS/HFS+ testing, > bug fix, and pathes review. I am not sure that I would have enough time for HFS+ > active development. But is it really that nobody would like to be the maintainer > of HFS/HFS+? Have we asked the contributors and reviewers of HFS/HFS+? If you're willing to step up as a maintainer, I would be happy to assist you by testing and reviewing patches. I have PowerMacs available for testing and it's also possible to just install Debian's 32-bit and 64-bit PowerPC on an emulated PowerMac on QEMU using the "mac99" machine types to test booting from an HFS/HFS+ partition [1]. I am Debian's primary maintainer of these PowerPC ports in Debian (not to be confused with the little-endian PowerPC port) and I can also easily build various test images if needed. Please let me know if you're interested in working together on the HFS/HFS+ driver. Adrian > [1] https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2025-04-01/ -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
