HFS+

[Natalia Portillo]

> > >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.
Is the classic enviroment itself the one that must boot from HFS+, not
the classic apps.
That is because the system/finder boot pair handles HFS+ for booting
theyself (as also does openfirmware).