Hi, On Mon, 2025-06-09 at 19:41 +0000, Viacheslav Dubeyko wrote: > Frankly speaking, I don't see the point to re-write the hfs-progs in Rust for > multiple reasons: > (1) mostly, the main use-case that HFS/HFS+ partition is created under Mac OS > and somebody tries to mount it under Linux to access data; > (2) Apple is the owner of the code on Mac OS side and it's not good to > significantly deviate from the Apple's state of the code; > (3) I believe that Apple considers hfs-progs as obsolete code and they don't > want any significant changes in it; > (4) the hfs-progs is user-space tool, it is not frequently used, and even it > fails, then there is no much harm. Writing hfsprogs from scratch for Linux would mean though that a proper license could be chosen that is not APSL which some distributions consider non-free. On the other hands, the current hfsprogs utility is based on Apple's original HFS/HFS+ code which is battle-tested and known to be reliable and robust. I'm not sure whether we would be able to reach this level of stability within a reasonable amount of time. I do have to resume my work on my Linux patches again so that we can synchronize hfsprogs with the latest upstream version. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
