On 1/31/02 12:08 PM, "Jim Beard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What problems have people been having using the Unix > File System with OS X? There's been quite a bit of chatter about this on the Darwin lists at apple.com. I do not know if Darwin/x86 suffers the same issues. But on the Mac OS X side, there's been a lot of issues with UFS and corruption. There's also been some issues with many apps not being able to install on UFS volumes. From what I recall, Apple's suggested fix for the time being is to use HFS+. Check here or the Darwin lists for more info: http://www.opensource.apple.com/bugs/ <speculation> - According to Apple documentation I've read, HFS+ supports multiple forks and UFS supports only single forks. Carbon simply simulates multiple forks on filesystems that do not support them. The issue might be here. - Seems like I read somewhere that HFS+ is faster than Apple's (old, slow) UFS implementation, even with the ": to /" directory separation routines. I can;t find the original page/email, though, so take this with a grain of salt. </speculation> There's a bunch more URL's I could dig up on the subject, but I'm too lazy right now :-). Let me know if you're interested, and I'll try and dig up more. Most of what I've read has been on kernel developer lists, and in kernel docs... Jacob
