README
1 Copyright (C) 2001 Brad Boyer
2 Copyright (C) 2003 Ardis Technologies bv
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4 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
5 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
6 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
7 (at your option) any later version.
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9 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
10 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
11 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
12 GNU General Public License for more details.
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14 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
15 along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
16 Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
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19HFS+ is the standard volume format for Mac OS X.
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21A basic overview and also a detailed description of the HFS+ volume format
22is provided by Apple's technical note 1150.
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24The new driver provides full access to HFS+ plus volumes under Linux. It
25bases on the driver by Brad Boyer at
26http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-hfsplus.
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28This driver now supports full read and write access and has a better
29perfomance. It also supports hard links and the resource fork is accessible
30via /rsrc.
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32This is a beta release, it was intensively tested, but use at your own risk.
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