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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I've lost 1 TB + 1.8 TB due to file system poo-poos that were caused by HFS+ and nothing else ...
I've had similar experiences - OS X and HFS+ account for a disproportionately high number of the tech support calls I get due to data loss. Most of the time, it's a thumb drive or enclosure that was unplugged/powered down without being un-mounted first - a bad idea with any OS, but I've only ever seen it result in actual data loss with OS X & HFS+.
Perversely enough, I've found that the quickest solution is usually to connect the drive to a Windows machine with the "MacDrive" software installed (commercial app that lets Windows read from HFS+ volumes), then plugging it back into the Mac. I'm not sure why, but it's worked for me 9 times out of 10.