Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 23rd Oct 2009 21:13 UTC, submitted by poundsmack
John Siracusa, the Mac OS X guru who writes those insanely detailed and well-written Mac OS X reviews for Ars Technica, once told a story about the evolution of the HFS+ file system in Mac OS X - he said it was a struggle between the Mac guys who wanted the features found in BeOS' BFS, and the NEXT guys who didn't really like these features. In the end, the Mac guys won, and over the course of six years, Mac OS X reached feature parity - and a little more - with the BeOS (at the FS level).
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Apple should really implement Ext4 using their own code; it should be fairly quick to do and it would be miles away better than HFS+.
I need two hands to count the number of times HFS+ has gone pear-shaped for me and I've lost data. That's not impressive at all. I shudder to think of what Leopard users must go through, considering that their operating system deletes files before putting them back on disk when you're just trying to save them.
And then when Btrfs comes out, Apple can nicely re-code that too.
But honestly, for god's sake, get rid of HFS+ and get rid of it SOON.