GSoC project idea: HFS Plus journal

[Rajat Sharma]

On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 2:15 AM, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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The code files for HFS mention following copyright:

Copyright (C) 1995-1997  Paul H. Hargrove
(C) 2003 Ardis Technologies <roman at ardistech.com>

probably you should talk to Paul and take a lock for your development :)

Rajat