On Mon, Apr 21, 2025 at 09:43:33PM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Mon, Apr 21, 2025 at 09:52:14PM +0000, Viacheslav Dubeyko wrote: > > Hi Adrian, > > > > I am trying to elaborate the HFS/HFS+ maintainership action items: > > (1) We need to prepare a Linux kernel tree fork to collect patches. > > (2) I think it needs to prepare the list of current known issues (TODO list). > > (3) Let me prepare environment and start to run xfstests for HFS/HFS+ (to check > > One potential problem is that the userspace utilities to format, > check, repair HFS/HFS+ utilities don't really exist. There is the HFS > Utilities[1] which is packaged in Debian as hfsutils, but it only > supports HFS, not HFS+, and it can only format an HFS file system; it > doesn't have a fsck analog. This is going to very limit the ability > to run xfstests for HFS or HFS+. > > [1] https://www.mars.org/home/rob/proj/hfs/ How about hfsprogs, it has mkfs and fsck tools. Though it /is/ APSL licensed... --D > - Ted >
