Reliable HFS+ Journaled mount in any OS for ARMv6

Question

I need an operating system for ARMv6 (Raspberry Pi) that can reliably mount HFS+ Journaled as read/write, with volume sizes up to 16TB.

I've not been able to find details on how stable HFS+ Journaled is in the latest versions of the Linux Kernel.

According to a possibly outdated Wikipedia article, there are several issues with HFS+ Journaled in Linux but work is underway to resolve this:

I've also looked into using Darwin or NetBSD as Apple uses these so hoped there would be an official driver, but no luck:

I can't find a way to compile Darwin for the Raspberry Pi as Apple haven't released the source code for ARM, and http://sourceforge.net/projects/darwin-arm/ seems to have been removed
As far as I can tell, Apple haven't released the NetBSD HFS+ drivers used on the Apple Airport

Can anyone answer

Perhaps of note is this conversation on the linux-fsdevel list, where someone is looking at getting Netgear's HFS+ code working with the Linux kernel - don't think this was resolved though. http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-fsdevel/msg57099.html — penx, Apr 23 '13 at 13:38
I have only seen read/write with HFS+ in linux if Journaling is disabled (reliably)... Why are you tied to using HFS+ with linux instead of a traditional linux formatting (or at least a system that has had long tested stability with linux)? — nerdwaller, Apr 23 '13 at 13:55
1. I have an existing large partition that would be a lot of work to migrate (partly because I don't have a second device with that much space to backup), 2. because I want to be able to swap the device between my Mac and the Raspberry Pi in the future — penx, Apr 23 '13 at 14:02
This doesn't seem to be suited for [SF] since it's missing the professional workplace context. — slhck, May 13 '13 at 14:19

score 3 · Answer 1 · edited May 13 '13 at 14:22

The stability issues of HFS+ (non journaled) were mainly about accessing drives > 2TB. This limit was removed at the end of June 2011.
Open bugs can be tracked at bugzilla.kernel.org.
Discussions and patches for HFS+ on Linux are submitted to the linux-fsdevel list.
Changes to the HFS+ source code can be tracked at git.kernel.org.
There is still no Journal support, but a recent experimental kernel extension is available at launchpad.net.
This project is linked to the following 'bug' in Ubuntu (considered a bug as HFS+ Journaled was previously accepted as a feature in Ubuntu and marked complete).
Paragon make proprietary drivers for Linux, but they don't support ARM.
They also make drivers for Android that do compile on ARM.

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