OSNews > Thread > "RE[5]: Wise timing, Apple. I see what you did there" by Bill Shooter of Bul

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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RE[5]: Wise timing, Apple. I see what you did there

by Bill Shooter of Bul on Sat 24th Oct 2009 15:46 UTC in reply to "RE[4]: Wise timing, Apple. I see what you did there"

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True, absolutely true. Its used much more in high performance servers where file system performance and resiliency are more important than they are in desktops.

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