It occurs to me that HFS might be the real culprit. A lot of the bad behaviors described here involve heavy disk use. John Siracusa has a nice round-up of all

It occurs to me that HFS might be the real culprit. A lot of the bad behaviors described here involve heavy disk use. John Siracusa has a nice round-up of all the HFS faults: http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2011/07/mac-os-x-10-7.ars/12 http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2011/07/mac-os-x-10-7.a...