Hi Adrian, On Thu, 2025-04-17 at 11:29 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > 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. > Sounds good! Yes, I am interested in working together on the HFS/HFS+ driver. :) And, yes, I can consider to be the maintainer of HFS/HFS+ driver. We can maintain the HFS/HFS+ driver together because two maintainers are better than one. Especially, if there is the practical need of having HFS/HFS+ driver in Linux kernel. Thanks, Slava.
