At 21:48 -0800 24/2/04, Mike Smith wrote: IOW, do it "just like HFS" wherever you can. Agreed. Also, there's no reason why the lack of support for storing your file's extents in the volume header should slow you down. The only reason HFS Plus needs that information in the volume header is so that it can find the catalogue and extents overflow files. Once you have access to those files, you can store the information about your special files there. You should probably hide your special files from clients (like the "HFS+ Private Data" directory; look through the source for hfs_privdir_desc for hints on how to do this) and also mark it invisible in the Finder information so that, if your volume is mounted by a version of HFS other than yours, it isn't seen by the user. S+E -- Quinn "The Eskimo!" <http://www.apple.com/developer/> Apple Developer Technical Support * Networking, Communications, Hardware _______________________________________________ darwin-kernel mailing list | darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Archives: http://www.lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/darwin-kernel Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.