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| author | Sanchit Sahay <ss19723@nyu.edu> | 2025-07-13 10:49:21 +0000 |
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| committer | Lorenzo Salvadore <salvadore@FreeBSD.org> | 2025-07-13 11:10:14 +0000 |
| commit | 0069602e6d511177be4cf9836fae1b06501b07bc (patch) | |
| tree | 2bfaa0a76f5f9f3404920bfab9236ec1b8c50911 | |
| parent | c9627c28ccac0ed916c9ebc1a86d77729df3c850 (diff) | |
Status/2025Q2/hfs.adoc: Add report
Reviewed by: status (Chris Moerz <freebsd@ny-central.org>)
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diff --git a/website/content/en/status/report-2025-04-2025-06/hfs.adoc b/website/content/en/status/report-2025-04-2025-06/hfs.adoc new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..94eeb173d1 --- /dev/null +++ b/website/content/en/status/report-2025-04-2025-06/hfs.adoc @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +=== Porting HFS+ to FreeBSD + +Links: + +link:https://github.com/stupendoussuperpowers/freebsd_hfs[Project Home] URL: link:https://github.com/stupendoussuperpowers/freebsd_hfs[] + + +Contact: Sanchit Sahay <ss19723@nyu.edu> + +HFS+ (Hierarchical File System) is a legacy filesystem introduced by Apple for its BSD-based XNU operating systems. +Although HFS+ has been deprecated in favor of APFS, it is still in use on many older Apple devices, such as iPods, which rely on HFS+ volumes for storage. + +While many modern operating systems include native support for HFS+, FreeBSD currently offers only limited functionality via FUSE. +This project aims to address that limitation by porting the original, now open-sourced HFS+ implementation to the FreeBSD kernel as a native filesystem driver. + +The primary focus of this effort is to modernize the VFS layer to align with current FreeBSD interfaces and to adapt XNU-specific logic to their FreeBSD equivalents. + +Features implemented: + +* Mount support for HFS, HFS+ Volumes +* Read, stat support for directories and files +* Create support for directories and files +* mount_hfs binary |