Re: [PATCH 08/14] hfsplus: Really remove hfsplus_writepage

[Jan Kara]

On Mon 18-12-23 15:40:42, Johannes Thumshirn wrote:
> On 18.12.23 16:04, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 18, 2023 at 10:41:27AM +0000, Johannes Thumshirn wrote:
> >>> although I had some reason to be careful back then.  hfsplus should
> >>> be testable again that the hfsplus Linux port is back alive.  Is there
> >>> any volunteer to test hfsplus on the fsdevel list?
> >>
> >> What do you have in mind on that side? "Just" running it through fstests
> >> and see that we don't regress here or more than that?
> > 
> > Yeah.  Back in the day I ran hfsplus through xfstests, IIRC that might
> > even have been the initial motivation for supporting file systems
> > that don't support sparse files.  I bet a lot has regressed or isn't
> > support since, though.
> > 
> 
> Let me see what I can do on that front over my winter vacation. As long 
> as there's no APFS support in Linux its the only way to exchange data 
> between macOS and Linux anyways, so we shouldn't break it.

AFAIK macOS actually does support UDF so there are other filesystems you
can use for data exchange.

								Honza

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Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx>
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