HFS vs UFS speed

[aufreak]

Hi OzX-ers,

Has anyone done a speed comparison between HFS and UFS file system implementations on 10.1? Which is faster? I know about the functionality differences between them, but if you're setting up OSX by itself without 9.2.1, would anyone recommend one over the other for speed?

 

[twyg]

Check this discussion, seems to be one of the clearest answers...

HFS vs. UNIX



If someone has a clearer answer please don't hesitate to post it!

 

[strobe]

HFS+ is faster in all cases, and also preserves some information which UFS will not in specific cases. For example creation date.

I haven't seen a single reason to use UFS. Some people can't be bothered to change a few things in order to have some things compile on HFS+ (due to case sensitivity), but in those cases you can create a UFS disk image.