Re: [Banshee-List] why can't Banshee write to HFS+ iPods?

[Aaron Bockover <abockover novell com>]

Your kernel has HFS+ write support? To fix a number of HAL-related
issues, I have added explicit checks in libipoddevice to mark the volume
read only if its filesystem is hfsplus, as I am not aware that there is
yet stable write support for HFS+ volumes. Maybe this has changed by
now... 

What kernel version are you using?

--Aaron



On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 08:44 -0700, Adam Dingle wrote:
> A followup: I just commented out the HFS check in
> ipod_device_detect_writeable() and rebuilt libipoddevice.  With this
> change I seem to be able to synchronize my HFS iPod just fine in
> Banshee (once again, on Ubuntu 7.04).
> 
> adam
> 
> On 4/24/07, Adam Dingle <adam medovina org> wrote:
>         It appears that Banshee can't write to an HFS-formatted iPod.
>         The libipoddevice library reports that any HFS-formatted iPod
>         is not writeable (this check occurs in
>         ipod_device_detect_writeable() in ipod-device.c), and in fact
>         the Banshee release notes say that Banshee includes "HFS+
>         read-only iPod support". 
>         
>         Why this limitation?  If I disable journaling on my iPod's HFS
>         partition then I'm able to write to the partition from Linux
>         (at least on Ubuntu 7.04) and, indeed, I was able to use
>         gtkpod to remove a song from my iPod.  If I were to change
>         ipod_device_detect_writeable() to report HFS iPods as
>         writeable then would Banshee be able to update them
>         successfully?  And if not, do we expect Banshee to support
>         writing to HFS iPods in the near future? 
>         
>         adam
>         
> 
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