3 ms·
"Quite frankly, HFS+ is probably the worst filesystem ever." Can anyone summarize why he thinks this?
by wiremine 12y ago
"Quite frankly, HFS+ is probably the worst filesystem ever."
Can anyone summarize why he thinks this?
- kannonboy 12y agoYou might've missed Linus' second comment on the page, wherein he talks about case-insensitivity and NFD normalization.
- wazoox 12y agoHFS+ has been patched with duct tape and pieces of cardboard for 20 years; receiving journaling, support for Unix attributes, extended attributes, 64 bits sizing, multi-processing, multi-users, hard links, etc. over the years. Really it's a sort of monument to kludge. It should have been ditched like 10 years ago.
- mikeash 12y agoHFS+ is basically the Apple equivalent of an alternate universe where Microsoft just keeps gluing new features on to FAT forever and never creates NTFS.
- verbatim 12y agoI'm not sure that's terribly different from ext4's lineage, which is generally accepted (AFAIK) as a pretty good file system, even if not cutting-edge.
- yarrel 12y agoBecause he hasn't used MFS. ;-)