This project allows ordinary users to directly mount OS X disk images under Linux via FUSE. darling-dmg is part of Darling - http://www.darlinghq.org

Without darling-dmg, the only way to do this would be to manually extract the DMG file, become root and mount the HFS filesystem as root. This is slow, wasteful and may even crash your system. Author has seen the Linux HFS implementation cause kernel crashes.

• DMG (UDIF) files containing an Apple Disk Image.
• Apple Disk Images containing an HFS /HFSX file system.
• HFS /HFSX file systems (incl. file systems embedded within HFS).

As you can see, the list is recursive. That means darling-dmg, can mount DMG files or unpacked DMG files or a single partition carved out of the latter.

Read only access only.

darling-dmg <file-to-mount> <where-to-mount> [FUSE arguments]

Resource forks are available via xattrs (extended attributes) or prefferably under the name /original/filename#..namedfork#rsrc.

Some people have had success with using darling-dmg as a library for their own use.