`fs-mac.so`

Shared object that supports Apple Macintosh HFS and HFS Plus (QNX Neutrino)

Syntax:

driver … mac mac_options… &

Options:

There are currently no mac_options defined.

In addition, you can specify any of the filesystem options described for io-blk.so.

Description:

The fs-mac.so shared object provides read-only support for Apple HFS (Hierarchical File System) and HFS Plus. It's automatically loaded by the devb-* drivers when mounting an Apple filesystem.

This filesystem uses UTF-8 encoding for presentation of its filenames; attempts to specify a filename not using UTF-8 encoding will fail (with an error of EILSEQ).

The slash (/) character (which is valid in file names on the Mac but not in POSIX) is swapped with the colon (:) (which is the Mac path separator). For example, an HFS file called 29/1/2009 will get shown to ls as 29:1:2009, and when opened with that name will internally match back to the 29/1/2009 on-disk name.

The fs-mac.so shared object doesn't support access to the resource fork or hard links.

Summary of filesystem commands

The following table shows the shared objects and related commands for the filesystems:

Partition type	Filesystem	Shared object	Initialize with:	Check with:
1, 4, or 6	DOS	`fs-dos.so`	`mkdosfs`	`chkdosfs`
7	Windows NT^a	`fs-nt.so`	N/A	N/A
11, 12, or 14	FAT32	`fs-dos.so`	`mkdosfs`	`chkdosfs`
77, 78, or 79	QNX 4	`fs-qnx4.so`	`dinit`	`chkfsys`
131	Linux (Ext2)	`fs-ext2.so`	N/A	N/A
175	Apple Macintosh HFS or HFS Plus^a	`fs-mac.so`	N/A	N/A
177, 178, or 179	Power-Safe	`fs-qnx6.so`	`mkqnx6fs`	`chkqnx6fs`^b

^a Read-only.

^b Not usually necessary.

For more information, see the Filesystems chapter of the System Architecture guide.

`fs-mac.so`

Syntax:

Runs on:

Options:

Description:

Summary of filesystem commands

See also: