HFS+ Support

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So I finally have RHEL Workstation working, unfortunatly I have to deal a lot with the HFS+ filesystem, unfortunatly it seems that the kernel provided by default does not have a lot of file systems enabled...

 

nodev    sysfs
nodev    rootfs
nodev    bdev
nodev    proc
nodev    cgroup
nodev    cpuset
nodev    tmpfs
nodev    devtmpfs
nodev    binfmt_misc
nodev    debugfs
nodev    securityfs
nodev    sockfs
nodev    usbfs
nodev    pipefs
nodev    anon_inodefs
nodev    inotifyfs
nodev    devpts
nodev    ramfs
nodev    hugetlbfs
    iso9660
nodev    mqueue
nodev    selinuxfs
    ext4
nodev    rpc_pipefs
nodev    autofs
nodev    fuse
    fuseblk
nodev    fusectl
 

 

I did not find a HFS module, I've also tried

 

mount -t hfs /dev/sdx1 /media/
 

and I get invalid/unknown file system

 

So I was wondering is there a way to get HFS+ working in RHEL 6 Workstation?

ER
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Jaylin ZHOU's picture Red Hat Active Contributor 369 points
4 May 2011 8:50 AM

Hi Reyes,

 

HFS is not supported in RHEL.

 

Best Regards,

Jaylin

rhn-support-mflitter's picture Red Hat Guru 1638 points
4 May 2011 2:54 PM

Hello Enzo,

 

You could consider recompiling the kernel with the support you need:

 

https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-52387

 

I haven't checked the Red Hat sources for hfsplus, but if they are not included and easily enabled, you will need to merge the module from kernel.org:

 

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=tree;f=fs/hfsplus;hb=HEAD

 

Again, I should point out that if there is a kernel issue on the system, then support may ask you to try again with a Red Hat binary but it should help with your problem.

 

Please also pay particular attention to the limitations when writing to Journalled HFS+ devices.