docs: filesystems: convert hfs.txt to ReST
- Add a SPDX header;
- Adjust document and section titles;
- Use notes markups;
- Add lists markups;
- Add it to filesystems/index.rst.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/8a625d6652d88809730020048d26c3b9333ddbdf.1581955849.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/hfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/hfs.rst
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rename from Documentation/filesystems/hfs.txt
rename to Documentation/filesystems/hfs.rst
index d096df6..ab17a00 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/hfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/hfs.rst
@@ -1,11 +1,16 @@
-Note: This filesystem doesn't have a maintainer.
+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+==================================
Macintosh HFS Filesystem for Linux
==================================
-HFS stands for ``Hierarchical File System'' and is the filesystem used
+
+.. Note:: This filesystem doesn't have a maintainer.
+
+
+HFS stands for ``Hierarchical File System`` and is the filesystem used
by the Mac Plus and all later Macintosh models. Earlier Macintosh
-models used MFS (``Macintosh File System''), which is not supported,
+models used MFS (``Macintosh File System``), which is not supported,
MacOS 8.1 and newer support a filesystem called HFS+ that's similar to
HFS but is extended in various areas. Use the hfsplus filesystem driver
to access such filesystems from Linux.
@@ -49,25 +54,25 @@
HFS is not a UNIX filesystem, thus it does not have the usual features you'd
expect:
- o You can't modify the set-uid, set-gid, sticky or executable bits or the uid
+ * You can't modify the set-uid, set-gid, sticky or executable bits or the uid
and gid of files.
- o You can't create hard- or symlinks, device files, sockets or FIFOs.
+ * You can't create hard- or symlinks, device files, sockets or FIFOs.
HFS does on the other have the concepts of multiple forks per file. These
non-standard forks are represented as hidden additional files in the normal
filesystems namespace which is kind of a cludge and makes the semantics for
the a little strange:
- o You can't create, delete or rename resource forks of files or the
+ * You can't create, delete or rename resource forks of files or the
Finder's metadata.
- o They are however created (with default values), deleted and renamed
+ * They are however created (with default values), deleted and renamed
along with the corresponding data fork or directory.
- o Copying files to a different filesystem will loose those attributes
+ * Copying files to a different filesystem will loose those attributes
that are essential for MacOS to work.
Creating HFS filesystems
-===================================
+========================
The hfsutils package from Robert Leslie contains a program called
hformat that can be used to create HFS filesystem. See
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/index.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/index.rst
index c351bc8..f776411 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/index.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/index.rst
@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@
f2fs
gfs2
gfs2-uevents
+ hfs
hfsplus
fuse
overlayfs
