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Uh, that's not quite the whole quote...

> "I don't think they're equally flawed - I think Leopard is a much better system," he said. "(But) OS X in some ways is actually worse than Windows to program for. Their file system is complete and utter crap, which is scary."

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Good catch. What an annoying, attention seeking, karma whoring title. What's next, 100 Ron Paul stories? :(

yes the file system is a worry. But that headline is totally wrong.

What's wrong with the file system?

HFS has some cruft from pre-Unix implementations. However, this cruft allows you use the filing system on older versions of MocOS. HFS implements swap space as a hidden file. HFS+ implements journalling in same way. If you boot an older version of MocOS then you temporarily lose journalling. This is the behaviour that you'd want. However, some bits are messy, including directory seperators, Unicode file names, file forks and instant indexing of file names.

There was talk of ZFS for a while I think?

I guess it will be post leopard now.

ZFS is an alpha-quality optional add-on in Leopard; I guess most users won't see it until later.

last time I heard, ZFS was going to be supported in the server version first.

Thanks for the explanation.

The layout, the naming.

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