On Feb 6, 2012, at 5:30 AM, Joel Rees wrote:
retro computing? Maintaining access to pre-historic data?
The only suggestion is dropping the ability to *create* HFS volumes using hfsplus-tools.
Not dropping read support for existing HFS volumes.
But, no, HFS isn't really dead. Old formats should not be allowed
to
die. I do want to be able to read my old media under emulation
someday. Apple doesn't care, but I do.
HFS is about as dead as Espiranto. Those who really want to keep it alive need to put the
effort into keeping it alive. As a long time Mac user, I don't expect someone else in
the open source community to do this for me, so that I can have access to weird ancient
junk. Migrating the data forward to new media and contemporary volume formats is the only
sure way to have access to your data. That old media is oxidizing and eventually won't
be readable even if you have something that understands HFS. I'd migrate it before
it's too late.
Chris Murphy