Open probonopd opened 10 months ago
Thank You for pointing my eyes on this.
As I already support HFS I was not aware that its now possible to mount APFS on FreeBSD.
Expect automount(8)
update - I hope sooner then later ...
Regards, vermaden
Seems not to work very well ...
I personally created new APFS filesystem on a apfs.dmg file on a Mac - then transferred to my FreeBSD machine.
These are the results of using libfsapfs package.
% pkg info -l libfsapfs
libfsapfs-e.20221102:
/usr/local/bin/fsapfsinfo
/usr/local/bin/fsapfsmount
/usr/local/include/libfsapfs.h
/usr/local/include/libfsapfs/codepage.h
/usr/local/include/libfsapfs/definitions.h
/usr/local/include/libfsapfs/error.h
/usr/local/include/libfsapfs/extern.h
/usr/local/include/libfsapfs/features.h
/usr/local/include/libfsapfs/types.h
/usr/local/lib/libfsapfs.a
/usr/local/lib/libfsapfs.so
/usr/local/lib/libfsapfs.so.1
/usr/local/lib/libfsapfs.so.1.0.0
/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pyfsapfs.a
/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pyfsapfs.so
/usr/local/libdata/pkgconfig/libfsapfs.pc
/usr/local/man/man1/fsapfsinfo.1.gz
/usr/local/man/man1/fsapfsmount.1.gz
/usr/local/man/man3/libfsapfs.3.gz
/usr/local/share/licenses/libfsapfs-e.20221102/LGPL3+
/usr/local/share/licenses/libfsapfs-e.20221102/LICENSE
/usr/local/share/licenses/libfsapfs-e.20221102/catalog.mk
% /usr/local/bin/fsapfsinfo ./apfs.dmg
fsapfsinfo 20221102
Unable to open: ./apfs.dmg.
libfsapfs_container_superblock_read_data: invalid object type: 0x00000000.
libfsapfs_container_superblock_read_file_io_handle: unable to read container superblock data.
libfsapfs_internal_container_open_read: unable to read container superblock at offset: 0 (0x00000000).
libfsapfs_container_open_file_io_handle: unable to read from file IO handle.
info_handle_open_input: unable to open input container.
% mdconfig.sh -c apfs.dmg
IN: created vnode at /dev/md0
% /usr/local/bin/fsapfsinfo /dev/md0
fsapfsinfo 20221102
Unable to open: /dev/md0.
libfsapfs_container_superblock_read_data: invalid object type: 0x00000000.
libfsapfs_container_superblock_read_file_io_handle: unable to read container superblock data.
libfsapfs_internal_container_open_read: unable to read container superblock at offset: 0 (0x00000000).
libfsapfs_container_open_file_io_handle: unable to read from file IO handle.
info_handle_open_input: unable to open input container.
% doas /usr/local/bin/fsapfsmount /dev/md0 /mnt/
fsapfsmount 20221102
Unable to open source container
libfsapfs_container_superblock_read_data: invalid object type: 0x00000000.
libfsapfs_container_superblock_read_file_io_handle: unable to read container superblock data.
libfsapfs_internal_container_open_read: unable to read container superblock at offset: 0 (0x00000000).
libfsapfs_container_open_file_io_handle: unable to read from file IO handle.
mount_handle_open: unable to open container.
Does it behaves the same on your side?
Regards, vermaden
Were you using APFS version 1 or 2? According to https://github.com/libyal/libfsapfs/wiki, only version 2 and certain features of it are supported.
Send me please version '2' or give me the instructions to create it.
Thanks in advance.
Apparently one cannot directly format a regular file with APFS2. APFS (Apple File System) is designed to be used on block devices like hard drives and SSDs, and not on regular files.
APFS version 2 is the default filesystem version for macOS 10.13 and iOS 10.3 and above, hence it will be automatically chosen when creating a new APFS filesystem.
To format a USB stick with the APFS2 file system, one can most likely approximately use the following procedure (unfortunately my Macs don't run a recent enough version of macOS so I couldn't test):
Please note that formatting the USB stick will erase all data stored on it, so make sure to back up any important files before proceeding.
I used 'file' for the APFS filesystem creation - does the instruction differ for a file?
I would assume it puts the APFS into a UDIF file then, which libfsapfs may not be able to read.
Possibly.
Please consider supporting APFS (the filesystem used on macOS nowadays).
https://www.freshports.org/devel/libfsapfs/ contains a library and tools (especially
fsapfsmount
) to access the Apple File System (APFS).