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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/hfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/hfs.rst index d096df6db07a..ab17a005e9b1 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/hfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/hfs.rst @@ -1,11 +1,16 @@ -Note: This filesystem doesn't have a maintainer. +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 +================================== Macintosh HFS Filesystem for Linux ================================== -HFS stands for ``Hierarchical File System'' and is the filesystem used + +.. Note:: This filesystem doesn't have a maintainer. + + +HFS stands for ``Hierarchical File System`` and is the filesystem used by the Mac Plus and all later Macintosh models. Earlier Macintosh -models used MFS (``Macintosh File System''), which is not supported, +models used MFS (``Macintosh File System``), which is not supported, MacOS 8.1 and newer support a filesystem called HFS+ that's similar to HFS but is extended in various areas. Use the hfsplus filesystem driver to access such filesystems from Linux. @@ -49,25 +54,25 @@ Writing to HFS Filesystems HFS is not a UNIX filesystem, thus it does not have the usual features you'd expect: - o You can't modify the set-uid, set-gid, sticky or executable bits or the uid + * You can't modify the set-uid, set-gid, sticky or executable bits or the uid and gid of files. - o You can't create hard- or symlinks, device files, sockets or FIFOs. + * You can't create hard- or symlinks, device files, sockets or FIFOs. HFS does on the other have the concepts of multiple forks per file. These non-standard forks are represented as hidden additional files in the normal filesystems namespace which is kind of a cludge and makes the semantics for the a little strange: - o You can't create, delete or rename resource forks of files or the + * You can't create, delete or rename resource forks of files or the Finder's metadata. - o They are however created (with default values), deleted and renamed + * They are however created (with default values), deleted and renamed along with the corresponding data fork or directory. - o Copying files to a different filesystem will loose those attributes + * Copying files to a different filesystem will loose those attributes that are essential for MacOS to work. Creating HFS filesystems -=================================== +======================== The hfsutils package from Robert Leslie contains a program called hformat that can be used to create HFS filesystem. See diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/index.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/index.rst index c351bc8a8c85..f776411340cb 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/index.rst @@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ Documentation for filesystem implementations. f2fs gfs2 gfs2-uevents + hfs hfsplus fuse overlayfs |