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3 mentions on Hacker News by 3 people: 0 stories, 3 comments · first 2022-02-22 · latest 2026-06-03

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  1. …being the only one I can think of). Fun fact: HFS dates back to the 80s, and so does the fsck code. https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/hfs/blob/main/lib... still contains '#if BSD' blocks for the Mac OS X code, and classic Mac code…
    comment by mrpippy · 2026-06-03 · in I Found a Bug in Apple's Fsck_hfs
  2. …HFS code was from NeXT rather than Mac OS. A lot of classic Mac OS was still 68k assembly. eg: https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/hfs/blob/hfs-106/... 13-Jan-1998 jwc first cut (derived from old NextStep macfs.util code and…
    comment by ksherlock · 2023-07-31 · in HFS Origins: The Turbo File System (2017)
  3. …not appear to be open source, but the HFS+ driver is. Here are the relevant pieces of code in HFS+: https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/hfs/blob/hfs-556.... https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/hfs/blob/5e3008b6... First, let…
    comment by ryao · 2022-02-22 · in Apple's custom NVMes are amazingly fast – if you don't care about data integrity