On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 11:39:07AM -0600, Ted Roby wrote:
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> On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 11:30 AM, Otto Moerbeek <otto@drijf.net> wrote:
> 
> >
> > I suspect the OP would like to dual boot his intel mac machine and
> > still have access from OpenBSD to the files stored on a hfsplus
> > partition.
> >
> >        -Otto
> >
> 
> 
> This is more in line with what I am seeking.
> I have a large amount of data which must be moved over from
> hfsplus to ffs. Since I am running -current, and seeking to assist
> with development, -my- solution was to invest in another large
> SATA drive, and attach via USB. I will format it with FAT32, copy
> all desired media from large hfsplus backup volume, boot to openbsd,
> copy all that data to internal FFS, reformat new drive FFS and use as
> backups.
> 
> My desire, however, is to possibly give OpenBSD portable hfsplus
> access on i386 for future Mac migrators.
> 

It should be possible to build the port on i386 with the 'ONLY_FOR' tag
changed, however I dont recall that the hfsplus code was new enough to
support case-sensitive filesystems. Testing would need to be done to verify
what filesystems (hfs/hfs+/journal/case-sensitive) features would work with
the hfsplus package if the macos partition was cleanly shut down (journal).
If someone were to do this testing and post a diff to ports@ with such
testing results, such diff would likely be accepted.

Dale Rahn				drahn@dalerahn.com