HFS+

[Natalia Portillo]

> >Did you compared HFS+ with, ext3, UFS, etc? Sure Apple did.
> 
>  Yes, and that's why they tried to move to a different file 
> system with OS
> X.
They just left the UFS file system when making OS X from OpenStep
 
> > highly GUI-optimized, as it stores icon-positions, associations of 
> > documents with apps, and each file has an unique-id that 
> help programs 
> > finding a file, even when it is moved or renamed. Things 
> that no other
> >file system have.
> 
>  Yes, it is very 'user friendly':
> 
>  http://www.cnam.fr/Jargon/jargon.html?1893
No one said user-friendly.
 
> >So, please, before talking bad about some thing, have 
> something to probe
> >that.
> 
>  Having worked with Macs for more than 10 years, I can 
> honestly say that I
> have seen more corrupted HFS[+] file systems than anything else. The
> journaling took a pretty serious performance hit (from 
> Apple's own specs,
> which oftem means much worse in the real world). It also is a 'case
> insensitive, case preserving' (read 'worst of both worlds')  
> file system,
> and as you said 'things that no other file system have' (read:
> 'incompatible with everything') such as resource/data forks. IMO,
> resource/data forks, icon positioning, application 
> association, etc. are
> things that should be handled at the application or operating 
> system level
> and not the file system. For example, icon position is useless on a
> machine that is only used in console mode. Apple seems to 
> agree with this
> as well, which is somewhat obvious in their .DS_Store, ._SomeFileName
> files and with the .app extension really being a folder (with data and
> resource items separated). I think that this is really a better move.
Seems that all but Linux/BSD are migrating to suchs "fork-based"
systems, as BeOS showed is better.

.DS_Store is for compatibility with UFS, and .app, .pkg, etc, are simply
OpenStep forms of using resource forks.

BeFS have Attributes.
HPFS have Extended Attributes.
NetWare have "forks".
NTFS have Attributes.
HFS(+) have two forks.

Seems that all systems have been migrating to "forks" along the time,
but UNIX/Linux.