GSoC project idea: HFS Plus journal

Greg Freemyer greg.freemyer at gmail.com
Sun Mar 20 16:45:24 EDT 2011


On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 1:07 PM, Naohiro Aota <naota at elisp.net> wrote:
> Greg KH <greg at kroah.com> writes:
>
>> On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 06:57:27PM +0900, Naohiro Aota wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I see some of you are talking about GSoC participation. I'm also
>>> thinking of it.
>>>
>>> I have MacBookPro booting both MacOSX and Linux. Now Linux can write the
>>> filesystem safely only when HFS Plus journal is off. My life would be
>>> more better if Linux have complete HFS Plus filesystem read/write
>>> support.
>>>
>>> So I'm thinking of implementing HFS Plus Journal support on Linux. I've
>>> searched and found a technote about HFS Plus format describe its Journal
>>> [1].
>>>
>>> How do you think about it?
>>
>> Looks like a nice self-contained, project proposal, good luck!
>
> Thanks. I need someone to mentor me :) How can I find him/her? Maybe I
> should post developing mailing list. But I don't find HFS+ developing
> list :(
>
> Regards,

You can try linux-fsdevel at vger.kernel.org,

That is where generic file system and vfs discussions take place.  I
assume all  the major file system developers subscribe to that.

Greg (not KH)



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