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Linux Might Drop The Apple HFS / HFS+ File-System Kernel Driver Support


There's the possibility raised that the mainline Linux kernel might remove its file-system kernel drivers for Apple HFS and HFS+ this year.

It makes sense with them being orphaned for more than a decade and Apple not even supporting the original HFS on macOS 10.15+. The issue was raised that some Linux distributions do rely on the HFS+ driver for installing on Intel-based Macs where HFS+ can be used as the EFI System Partition (ESP). In any event we'll see what comes about and if anyone bothers to step up to maintain the HFS Linux driver code.

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