On the subject of HFS+, I've had numerous issues with the filesystem on my old MacBook. Stuff I've never had with NTFS (i.e. failing to boot for no reason, and having to recover using DiskWarrior).
On Jan 9, 11:17 pm, Fabrizio Giudici <[email protected]> wrote: > Chris Adamson wrote: > > There's some speculation that Apple would be better off developing a > > new filesystem suited to the nature of its core products: flash memory > > in the 10-100 GB range for iPods and iPhones, and SSDs for laptops as > > they get more affordable. Once we take away the assumption of ferrous > > oxide on a spinning disc, lots of things are presumably in play, and > > ZFS' advantages may not apply. More at: > > http://www.devwhy.com/blog/2009/10/24/the-loss-of-zfs.html > > Maybe. But in the meantime, for the next two years, we're left with > HFS+. I have at least one customer that runs a large repository of media > that are used by a web application on Mac OS X (very bad idea, in my > opinion, anyway it's up to him) and I don't see any SSD in that place > for many years. And the blog, correctly, says that one FS doesn't fit > both roles, the "data center" and the "exchange media". So, what would > Apple be working on? Back to the original topic, we don't know at all. > > PS Reading that blog I've just learned that I'm "psyched". > > -- > Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager > Tidalwave s.a.s. - "We make Java work. Everywhere." > weblogs.java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici -www.tidalwave.it/people > [email protected]
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