UFS or HFS+ ???

[DualG4X]

could someone help me out here and tell me if there are any benefits in choosing UFS instead of the regular HFS+ ??? is it like comparing ntfs to fat32 ??

[nkuvu]

Everything that I have heard points to the fact that OS X on UFS is slow. Real slow. Mind bogglingly slow. Did I mention slow?

The only advantage that I can think of off the top of my head is that a Unix OS would be able to read your HD, so it's possible that you could set up a dual boot OS X/Linux system. I think, don't quote me on that.

[RacerX]

Originally posted by DualG4X
could someone help me out here and tell me if there are any benefits in choosing UFS instead of the regular HFS+ ??? is it like comparing ntfs to fat32 ??

If you wanted a comparison:

NTFS is to FAT32 what HFS+ is to UFS.

I think that covers that part. When would you want UFS? Only if you have a special need that requires it. If you don't know what you would need it for, you most likely don't need it (a headless web server sitting in a closet would be a good example of when it might be used).

[Lazarus18]

I think it's a little unfair to say that UFS is slower than HFS+. THere are some things that get done faster on a UFS system, I believe it deals with small files faster, etc. But overall speed is much better on HFS+. There are limited applications where UFS would be best, but basically if you have to ask... you need to be using HFS+.

[nkuvu]

Originally posted by Lazarus18
I think it's a little unfair to say that UFS is slower than HFS+.

If you'll note in my original post, I said "everything that I have heard". So if you have evidence towards the contrary please share. I'm not trying to decide one way or another. I'm using HFS+, and intend to continue to do so, so I have no personal experience with the speed of OS X on UFS.

[Lazarus18]

I think testuser mentioned what I was speaking of, cp, mv and all those things are often faster (I've seen posts indicating they can be dramatically faster) on UFS systems.

That being said I've only used HFS+ and intend to keep doing so. I was just (academically really) pointing out that for rare people UFS has advantages. 99% of us are not those people though.

[DualG4X]

Thanks alot eveyone for all that info. Does anyone know if apple will comeout with another file sytem, something more stable n secure n faster, ive read somewere that Be's file system was alot better compared to HFS+

[Lazarus18]

I haven't heard anything to indicate that apple is planning something past HFS+. Be got bought by Palm, and while many thought Apple would buy it and incorporate parts of their technology it didn't happen, so I don't know how keen Apple is on their stuff.

There are some problems with HFS+, but I don't see a new FS any time soon. Perhaps eventually they would support XFS or something, but I think HFS+ is it for the foreseeable future.