[ydl-gen] Using bcm43xx-fwcutter-006 and a error message

[Christopher Murtagh]

On Monday 10 September 2007 23:34:26 Derick Centeno wrote:
> Now that is a great deal of difference!  So what happened?  Well the
> most recent versions of OS X, unlike earlier versions utilize
> Journaling as it's standard format which cannot be changed. 
> Earlier versions of OS X allowed one to switch between Journaling and
> non-Journaling modes.  

 Ok, this is wrong.

 You can turn off journaling on MacOS partitions both with the GUI and with 
the command line tools. man diskutil and search for 'disableJournal'. If you 
prefer the GUI, try holding down the option key as described here:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107249

 Unless you're using a more recent version of MacOS X than 10.4, but I suspect 
you would have had to sign several NDAs in that case.

Now, as to why mount was failing for you this way is odd. I have both 
journaled and non journaled HFS+ partitions and I cannot reproduce what you 
had. Just using mount without specifying the fstype 'just works' for me. 
Although, there is certainly no harm in being more verbose in this case, and 
if this is what makes things work for you, then all the better.

Using journaled HFS+ is *not* recommend under Linux and all kernels I've seen 
will balk at you and mount the FS read only. What I get in /var/log/messages 
is:

kernel: hfs: write access to a jounaled filesystem is not supported, use the 
force option at your own risk, mounting read-only.

If you plan on mounting a journaled filesystem under linux for anything other 
than read-only you should use the methods above to turn journaling off first 
on the MacOS X side. I'll add this to the HOW-TO so that there isn't any 
confusion on this.

Cheers,

Chris