It may be a crime, but is the result of a set of compromises in the design of the OSX filesystem, which had to work with a BSD variant while also being compatib

It may be a crime, but is the result of a set of compromises in the design of the OSX filesystem, which had to work with a BSD variant while also being compatible with pre-OSX days. I think it’s one thing they actually did an elegant job with. EDIT: This document describes some of the challenges: https://www.usenix.org/legacy/publications/library/proceedings/usenix2000/invitedtalks/sanchez_html/sanchez.html https://www.usenix.org/legacy/publications/library/proceedin...