Hi all, I?ve got a HFS+(not journaled) volume connected to my centos6.2 test server, i installed the kmod-hfs(plus) packages and read/write works all fine. but since i?m going to use this for serving mac home folders via netatalk i would like to mount it with support for Extended Attributes and acl?s. so i add user_xattr and acl to my fstab options but then it fails to mount. checking the error in dmesg just gives me ?hfs: unable to parse mount options?. does anyone know what?s going on and what i should do to make this work? regards, Wessel
On Wednesday, March 07, 2012 01:17:15 PM Wessel van der Aart wrote:> so i add user_xattr and acl to my fstab options but then it fails to mount. > checking the error in dmesg just gives me ?hfs: unable to parse mount > options?. > does anyone know what?s going on and what i should do to make this work?Well, having used the in-kernel HFS+ filesystem driver before, and found it lacking in a number of areas (like massive corruption under heavy load or when unlinking lots of files) I bought the commercially supported Paragon NTFS&HFS drivers. http://www.paragon-software.com/business/ntfs-linux-professional/ I have not tried extended attribute and acl support, but the Paragon drivers support full read and write on journaled HFS+ filesystems. It's $40 US, but worth every penny in my book for filesystem compatibility.
On Thursday, March 08, 2012 11:59:31 AM Wessel van der Aart wrote:> Hi Lamar, > > i tried their free version today. > at first it did look promising but as soon i was to perform actions on > files with acl's on them the whole system came down hard and leaving my > external HDD corrupted. > after several hours i've decided to give up and go with ext4 > but still thanks!Sorry it didn't work out for you. Linus, for one, has a pretty poor opinion of HFS in general.....and I'm not thrilled with it myself, due to some issues I had with Tiger on a PowerMac G4 and heavily corrupted filesystems, journaled or not. And I have some of the 'rescue' tools like DiskWarrior, and I've still lost some data. Hopefully your experience with ext4 will work out better. Mac OS X does very well with SMB/CIFS shares, too, if AppleTalk doesn't work out for you. (I run Mac OS X here in a few areas, and even Tiger works well with a Samba server, but I haven't tried any ACL's with it).