Re: Sweet16 plans

[Sheppy <the.sheppy@gmail.com>]

On Aug 30, 8:41 pm, Steven Nelson <steven-nel...@uiowa.edu> wrote:
> On Aug 30, 4:29 pm, D Finnigan <dog_...@macgui.com> wrote:
>
> > Sheppy wrote:
> > > So Apple released Snow Leopard, and while Sweet16 works great on it,
> > > there is one hitch:
>
> > > Snow Leopard no longer lets you write to HFS disks and disk images.
>
> Could you clarify a little more?  HFS (standard) or HFS+ (extended) as
> well.  If HFS+ is still supported, you could always just write a HFS+
> FST for GS/OS and the problem is solved ;-)  If 10.6 doesn't even
> support HFS+, then it is really screwed up.  I am sure someone could
> write a HFS <-> HFS+ converter on the Mac.  Would be a pain to test
> since the OSX wouldn't be able to mount a converted image.

Just HFS standard has gone to read-only. HFS+ is still the preferred
file system format for Mac OS X in Snow Leopard.

Writing an HFS+ FST is impractical for many reasons. First, because
writing an FST is essentially impossible; while there've been a couple
out there, they're based on incomplete knowledge of how FSTs work. In
addition, HFS+ is vastly more complex than, say, RDOS. :)

Sheppy