Comment 9 for bug 349707

Well, clearly the kernel guys don't care. I can blame them - HFS+ is not quite the most common file system on Linux. They haven't fixed it after over a year. At this point it's clear they are not going to fix it just for the sake of an Ubuntu bug reports.

Bottom line: if you care about it, make a patch against the kernel, get it upstream, and then wait until Ubuntu gets the new upstream kernel. It might already be too late for Lucid, I dunno.