{"id":592879,"date":"2026-08-22T20:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T20:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/592879\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T20:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T20:32:08","slug":"apple-hfs-hfs-file-system-support-continues-seeing-fixes-with-linux-7-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/592879\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple HFS \/ HFS+ File-System Support Continues Seeing Fixes With Linux 7.3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"APPLE\" src=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/assets\/categories\/apple.webp\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/><br \/>\nIn early 2025 it was being discussed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Linux-2025-Sad-State-HFS\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">potentially drop the HFS and HFS+ file-system support<\/a> with the code having been orphaned over a decade and becoming a maintenance burden. But that dismal outlook quickly turned around with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Apple-HFS-2025-Linux-Maintain\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">some developers stepping up to maintain the old Apple file-system support<\/a>. Over a year later, fortunately, it&#8217;s turned out to be a success story with more HFS\/HFS+ file-system fixes continuing to work their way into the mainline Linux kernel.<\/p>\n<p>In the Linux kernel updates over the past year there have been a steady flow of HFS\/HFS+ file-system fixes. With the ongoing Linux 7.3 merge window there is once again activity around these file-systems that Apple itself hasn&#8217;t even been supporting in the macOS world for years: Apple ended the original HFS in macOS 10.6 in 2009 and in 2017 replaced HFS+ with the modern APFS file-system.&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>For Linux 7.3 there are a number of fixes to issues uncovered by Syzbot as well as xfstest testing failures. There is a b-tree bitmap corruption check, validation improvements, some logic refactoring, and also a clean-up for the KUnit testing.&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>Those still finding a use for HFS\/HFS+ file-system support on modern Linux distributions can find the full list of fixes via <a href=\"https:\/\/git.kernel.org\/pub\/scm\/linux\/kernel\/git\/torvalds\/linux.git\/commit\/?id=0de672c7e1920acc5675d0dd22718c4f6e6b4447\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this Git merge<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In early 2025 it was being discussed to potentially drop the HFS and HFS+ file-system support with the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":592880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[78437,85,46,78436,78434,78433,78440,78438,78435,78439,78432,78443,125,78441,78442],"class_list":["post-592879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-desktop-linux","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-linux-benchmarking","tag-linux-hardware-benchmarks","tag-linux-hardware-reviews","tag-linux-how-to","tag-linux-performance","tag-linux-server-benchmarks","tag-open-source-graphics","tag-phoronix","tag-phoronix-test-suite","tag-technology","tag-ubuntu-benchmarks","tag-ubuntu-hardware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}