[geeks] Weird MacOS issue

Phil Stracchino alaric at metrocast.net
Tue Dec 23 20:58:11 CST 2008


Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> I always felt like HFS+ was an aging set of hacks on top of an aging  
> filesystem.

I think that about sums it up, yeah.  I've never really understood why
Apple made the filesystem design decisions it did with MacOS.  The whole
dual-forked-file metaphor was a solution in search of a problem.


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