Version pre-0.7-7 of my HFS module is now available on my HFS for Linux web page: http://www-sccm.stanford.edu/~hargrove/HFS/
This release fixes 3 real show-stopper bugs in pre-0.7-5 that could have locked up the system under heavy writing loads.
There remains one reported bug, and that is that the sizes of the resource fork under AppleDouble and Netatalk are stored in the wrong byte-order, so Netatalk clients see small files as being absolutely huge. The (untested) fix is the following patch:
--- file_nat.c.orig Thu Aug 22 00:04:23 1996 +++ file_nat.c Thu Aug 22 00:05:24 1996 @@ -181,7 +181,8 @@ } if (what & HFS_META_RFORK) { if (entry->type == HFS_CDR_FIL) { - meta->descr[0].length = entry->u.file.rsrc_fork.lsize; + meta->descr[0].length = + swap32(entry->u.file.rsrc_fork.lsize); } } if (what & HFS_META_FLAGS) {
---- Paul H. Hargrove All material not otherwise attributed hargrove@sccm.stanford.edu is the opinion of the author or a typo.