libfshfs is a library to access the Hierarchical File System (HFS) format.

Project information:

* Status: experimental
* Licence: LGPL-3.0-or-later

Read-only supported HFS formats:

* HFS+, Mac OS 10.3 and later (Unicode 3.2 case-insensitive)
* HFSX, Mac OS 10.3 and later (Unicode 3.2 case-sensitive)

Unsupported HFS formats:

* (traditional) HFS
* HFS-wrapped HFS+
* HFS+, Mac OS 8.1 through 10.2 (Unicode 2.1 case-insensitive)
* HFSX, Mac OS 8.1 through 10.2 (Unicode 2.1 case-sensitive)

Supported HFS format features:

* decmpfs compression
  * LZFSE (compresssion methods 11 and 12)
  * LZVN (compresssion methods 7 and 8)
  * raw (compresssion methods 9 and 10)
  * ZLIB (compresssion methods 3 and 4)
* extended attributes

Unsupported HFS format features:

* decmpfs compression
  * "uncompressed" (compression methods 1)
  * LZBitmap (compression methods 13 and 14)

Planned:

* Complete extents extended attribute value data (kHFSPlusAttrExtents) support

For more information see:

* Project documentation: https://github.com/libyal/libfshfs/wiki/Home
* How to build from source: https://github.com/libyal/libfshfs/wiki/Building