Stadium Arcadium

Just picked up the new Red Hot Chili Peppers album (on release day go me) and I'm pleased so far. It's a double disc album (they call the CDs Jupiter and Mars which is cool) and I got it for $11.99 at Best Buy so that's a pretty good deal for 28 songs. I then encountered some fun trying to put it on the iPod.

Turns out that the kernel I'm now using decided that writing to a journaled HFS+ filesystem is not safe and will not mount read-write without some serious complaining. (Guess which filesystem my Mac-formatted iPod uses.) It also does not warn you about this problem anywhere but dmesg. Took me awhile to figure the problem out, because they just put this "protect you from yourself" feature into the kernel very recently and I never encountered it with my old setup.

Oh, and check this warning message out: "hfs: write access to a jounaled filesystem is not supported, use the force option at your own risk, mounting read-only." Not only are they scaredy-cats, but they can't spell journaled.

Once I found out what was going on I immediately forced at my own risk and of course everything's fine. Reckless abandon for the win. :)