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Originally posted by lethe
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OSX is not really at home on HFS. but you need HFS if you want those metadata. i think that the future of filesystems is in journalled filesystems. apple has filesystem engineers from Be, and it is my theory that apple has a cool filesystem, tailored for OSX, with journalling, in the wings.
*fingers crossed* |
I can't help but think that Apple coming up with their own filesystem would be reinventing the wheel. They leveraged OS X by basing it on BSD and I don't see why they don't do the same sort of thing for the filesystem There are some excellent filesystems for Linux which are Open Source. SGI's XFS comes to mind. Why don't they use that - works as well for single CPU desktop systems as it does for systems with 100s of CPUs, so they could use it on the Xserve - how many CPUs in that now? ...(looking on web)...ah, only two. Perhaps it would be overkill, but it certainly takes care of future requirements.
Anyway, not sure how this relates to the file type issue. I prefer not to have a filename with an embedded type and just name the file to reflect what is in the file rather than the format it is held in.
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Max.