Re: DarwinPorts (MacPorts) Advisory: Stay with at least Xcode 2.2.1 on Intel (if not PPC)

On Aug 28, 2006, at 7:40 AM, Tabitha McNerney wrote:

> It would be nice to have the
> option to mount HFSX disc volumes to other OS platforms besides Mac  
> OS X
> since Mac Intel hardware means that the world of opportunities  
> opens up for
> developers who want to move and/or share their data cross platform

I think that's a responsibility left to the other platforms'  
developers. I remember originally looking into UFS, but once I read  
about the endian issues, I realized that I wasn't going to be able to  
easily mount a Mac OS X UFS volume on another OS anyway. I haven't  
actually needed to unplug a drive from my Mac to another OS yet, so  
it hasn't really been an issue.

That said, HFS is available as open source as part of Darwin. There  
are several projects in varying levels of development that allow  
reading HFS+ volumes on other operating systems:

<http://people.freebsd.org/~yar/hfs/>
<http://www.ardistech.com/hfsplus/>
<http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/support/solutions/ydl_general/ 
hfsplus.shtml>
<http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive6/>
<http://www.ufsexplorer.com/index.php>

I haven't tried any of these, but at least these should help assuage  
concerns about locking up data onto HFS+ volumes. Plus your Mac OS X  
experience will be a LOT easier. :)

Hope this helps,
Chris