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Apple's been doing a credible job of duplicating the features of BeOS in MacOS X, with the help of some key BeOS refugees (notably Dominic Giampaolo).
by njloof 11y ago
Apple's been doing a credible job of duplicating the features of BeOS in MacOS X, with the help of some key BeOS refugees (notably Dominic Giampaolo).
- Stratoscope 11y agoThis is very interesting. Could you give any specifics? Thanks!
- codezero 11y agoHFS/HFS+ are very very similar to the BeOS filesystem. Dominic Giampaolo developed that, so I assume that's what's being referred to. There's a great writeup of the file system here: http://www.nobius.org/~dbg/practical-file-system-design.pdf http://www.nobius.org/~dbg/practical-file-system-design.pdf In particular, the labels and how they worked in BeOS are a big part of HFS, when Finder says it's "indexing" it's indexing all those extended attributes (among other things).
- brandonmenc 11y ago> notably Dominic Giampaolo His book on file system design is still a must-read, imo. http://www.nobius.org/~dbg/practical-file-system-design.pdf http://www.nobius.org/~dbg/practical-file-system-design.pdf