1ec8f24b7SThomas Gleixner# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only 2b08bac1fSAlexey Dobriyanconfig HFSPLUS_FS 3b08bac1fSAlexey Dobriyan tristate "Apple Extended HFS file system support" 4b08bac1fSAlexey Dobriyan depends on BLOCK 5*925c86a1SChristoph Hellwig select BUFFER_HEAD 6b08bac1fSAlexey Dobriyan select NLS 7b08bac1fSAlexey Dobriyan select NLS_UTF8 89636e650SChristoph Hellwig select LEGACY_DIRECT_IO 9b08bac1fSAlexey Dobriyan help 10b08bac1fSAlexey Dobriyan If you say Y here, you will be able to mount extended format 11b08bac1fSAlexey Dobriyan Macintosh-formatted hard drive partitions with full read-write access. 12b08bac1fSAlexey Dobriyan 13b08bac1fSAlexey Dobriyan This file system is often called HFS+ and was introduced with 14b08bac1fSAlexey Dobriyan MacOS 8. It includes all Mac specific filesystem data such as 15b08bac1fSAlexey Dobriyan data forks and creator codes, but it also has several UNIX 16b08bac1fSAlexey Dobriyan style features such as file ownership and permissions. 17