--- title: Apple HFS / HFS+ File-System Support Seeing Many Fixes... description: Apple HFS and HFS+ file-system drivers in the Linux kernel, once nearly removed due to being orphaned for a decade, are receiving a substantial batch of fixes... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/apple-hfs-hfs-file-system-support-seeing-many-fixes-for-linux-7-1-earmavrem twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Apple HFS / HFS+ File-System Support Seeing Many Fixes For Linux 7.1 | daily.dev og:description: Apple HFS and HFS+ file-system drivers in the Linux kernel, once nearly removed due to being orphaned for a decade, are receiving a substantial batch of fixes... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/apple-hfs-hfs-file-system-support-seeing-many-fixes-for-linux-7-1-earmavrem og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/eARMaVREm.png og:image:alt: Apple HFS / HFS+ File-System Support Seeing Many Fixes For Linux 7.1 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Apple HFS / HFS+ File-System Support Seeing Many Fixes For Linux 7.1 **[Phoronix](https://daily.dev/sources/phoronix)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Apple HFS and HFS+ file-system drivers in the Linux kernel, once nearly removed due to being orphaned for a decade, are receiving a substantial batch of fixes for Linux 7.1. After developers stepped up to maintain these drivers about a year ago, the effort has proven successful with fixes each kernel cycle. The Linux 7.1 batch addresses issues found by Syzbot and xfstests failures, covering race conditions, b-tree logic, ctime updates, xattr handling, and potential Allocation File corruption after fsync. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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