Mark C. Ballew wrote:
> The BSD's[0] use "Soft updates" instead of journaling in the default
> filesystem. I'm really not qualified to talk about performance, but I
> found a paper on it you can read:
>
> http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/papers/mckusick99.pdf
>
> [0]This excludes OS X, which uses HFS+[1] by default
[1] OS X's HFS+ is a journaling filesystem that supports the UTF-8
charset for filenames. It's not really great as far as performance,
being on par with ext3 in my experience, but Apple needed a filesystem
that would support resource forks a la classic HFS.
HTH,
Tim
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