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4*4882a593SmuzhiyunMacintosh HFS Filesystem for Linux
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8*4882a593Smuzhiyun.. Note:: This filesystem doesn't have a maintainer.
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11*4882a593SmuzhiyunHFS stands for ``Hierarchical File System`` and is the filesystem used
12*4882a593Smuzhiyunby the Mac Plus and all later Macintosh models.  Earlier Macintosh
13*4882a593Smuzhiyunmodels used MFS (``Macintosh File System``), which is not supported,
14*4882a593SmuzhiyunMacOS 8.1 and newer support a filesystem called HFS+ that's similar to
15*4882a593SmuzhiyunHFS but is extended in various areas.  Use the hfsplus filesystem driver
16*4882a593Smuzhiyunto access such filesystems from Linux.
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19*4882a593SmuzhiyunMount options
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22*4882a593SmuzhiyunWhen mounting an HFS filesystem, the following options are accepted:
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24*4882a593Smuzhiyun  creator=cccc, type=cccc
25*4882a593Smuzhiyun	Specifies the creator/type values as shown by the MacOS finder
26*4882a593Smuzhiyun	used for creating new files.  Default values: '????'.
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28*4882a593Smuzhiyun  uid=n, gid=n
29*4882a593Smuzhiyun  	Specifies the user/group that owns all files on the filesystems.
30*4882a593Smuzhiyun	Default:  user/group id of the mounting process.
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32*4882a593Smuzhiyun  dir_umask=n, file_umask=n, umask=n
33*4882a593Smuzhiyun	Specifies the umask used for all files , all directories or all
34*4882a593Smuzhiyun	files and directories.  Defaults to the umask of the mounting process.
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36*4882a593Smuzhiyun  session=n
37*4882a593Smuzhiyun  	Select the CDROM session to mount as HFS filesystem.  Defaults to
38*4882a593Smuzhiyun	leaving that decision to the CDROM driver.  This option will fail
39*4882a593Smuzhiyun	with anything but a CDROM as underlying devices.
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41*4882a593Smuzhiyun  part=n
42*4882a593Smuzhiyun  	Select partition number n from the devices.  Does only makes
43*4882a593Smuzhiyun	sense for CDROMS because they can't be partitioned under Linux.
44*4882a593Smuzhiyun	For disk devices the generic partition parsing code does this
45*4882a593Smuzhiyun	for us.  Defaults to not parsing the partition table at all.
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47*4882a593Smuzhiyun  quiet
48*4882a593Smuzhiyun  	Ignore invalid mount options instead of complaining.
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51*4882a593SmuzhiyunWriting to HFS Filesystems
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54*4882a593SmuzhiyunHFS is not a UNIX filesystem, thus it does not have the usual features you'd
55*4882a593Smuzhiyunexpect:
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57*4882a593Smuzhiyun * You can't modify the set-uid, set-gid, sticky or executable bits or the uid
58*4882a593Smuzhiyun   and gid of files.
59*4882a593Smuzhiyun * You can't create hard- or symlinks, device files, sockets or FIFOs.
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61*4882a593SmuzhiyunHFS does on the other have the concepts of multiple forks per file.  These
62*4882a593Smuzhiyunnon-standard forks are represented as hidden additional files in the normal
63*4882a593Smuzhiyunfilesystems namespace which is kind of a cludge and makes the semantics for
64*4882a593Smuzhiyunthe a little strange:
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66*4882a593Smuzhiyun * You can't create, delete or rename resource forks of files or the
67*4882a593Smuzhiyun   Finder's metadata.
68*4882a593Smuzhiyun * They are however created (with default values), deleted and renamed
69*4882a593Smuzhiyun   along with the corresponding data fork or directory.
70*4882a593Smuzhiyun * Copying files to a different filesystem will loose those attributes
71*4882a593Smuzhiyun   that are essential for MacOS to work.
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74*4882a593SmuzhiyunCreating HFS filesystems
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77*4882a593SmuzhiyunThe hfsutils package from Robert Leslie contains a program called
78*4882a593Smuzhiyunhformat that can be used to create HFS filesystem. See
79*4882a593Smuzhiyun<https://www.mars.org/home/rob/proj/hfs/> for details.
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82*4882a593SmuzhiyunCredits
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85*4882a593SmuzhiyunThe HFS drivers was written by Paul H. Hargrovea (hargrove@sccm.Stanford.EDU).
86*4882a593SmuzhiyunRoman Zippel (roman@ardistech.com) rewrote large parts of the code and brought
87*4882a593Smuzhiyunin btree routines derived from Brad Boyer's hfsplus driver.
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