Re: [Banshee-List] why can't Banshee write to HFS+ iPods?
- From: Aaron Bockover <abockover novell com>
- To: banshee-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: [Banshee-List] why can't Banshee write to HFS+ iPods?
- Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 12:32:38 -0400
After a little searching, I am not convinced that solid HFS+ support
exists. Not much has happened in the hfsplus kernel module:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.20.y.git;a=history;f=fs/hfsplus;h=d04e39dca24ada1009afca46a6338cf9dca2f593;hb=HEAD
And google doesn't say much, other than a page from Gentoo:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_hfsplus
Does Ubuntu include the HFS+ module from the linux-hfsplus project on
sourceforge?
http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-hfsplus
Did you install something separately to get write support? AFAIK, and
also as pointed out by the Gentoo page, the HFS+ write support that
exists in some forms is very unstable and journaling isn't supported at
all - and iPods come with journaling enabled by default.
--Aaron
On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 11:53 -0400, Aaron Bockover wrote:
> 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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