HFS+ is the standard volume format for Mac OS X.
A basic overview and also a detailed description of the HFS+ volume format is provided by Apple's technical note 1150.
The new driver provides full access to HFS+ plus volumes under Linux. It bases on the driver by Brad Boyer at http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-hfsplus.
This driver now supports full read and write access and has a better perfomance.
It also supports hard links and the resource fork is accessible via
This is a beta release, it was intensively tested, but use at your own risk.
You can download the driver from here.
The driver can be used with linux-2.4 and linux-2.6.
The enclosed README file describes how to build the driver.