HFS+

[nathan r. hruby]

On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote:

> At 11:04 -0400 on 06/19/2003, Christopher Murtagh wrote about Re: HFS+:
> 
> >HFS+ is a kludge of a file system. It's bad enough that Apple uses 
> >it (they tried to drop it and move to UFS but that failed
> >miserably).
> 
> It failed for a VERY IMPORTANT reason - Classic Applications can not 
> access UFS formatted media so the drives MUST be left as HFS+ in 
> MacOS X. MacOS X is perfectly happy to run off of and use UFS 
> formatted media so long as all applications are MacOS X and neither 
> Classic Mode nor MacOS 9 Systems need to access the volume.

Wrong.  Carbon File Manager abstracts the FS type away from the app in the
classic environment.  That's why I can save documents in Office2001 on my
NFS mounted home directory.  It's not always stable, but I think that's
Office's fault, not Carbon File Mangers's as I have some very old legacy
apps that save happy as can be to NFS.

> At 12:31 -0400 on 06/19/2003, nathan r. hruby wrote about Re: HFS+:
>
> >Maybe now that machines aren't booting os9 anymore, this will chnage
> >in panther.
>
> Just because the machine no longer needs to boot into OS9 does not
> mean that HFS+ volumes are no longer needed and you can switch to
> UFS. Classic Mode Programs (ie: OS9 programs) still need the volumes
> they read to be HFS+. Just because you are not booting into OS9 as
> your main OS, does not mean that you are not booting into OS9 under
> MacOS X in the emulated "sandbox".

My point was that hopefully now that the machines are physically limited 
to not booting OS9 (and as we know, Carbon File Mangaer works), that 
perhaps we'll see some venturing of filesystems in Panther.

Thanks,

-n
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