Is HFS really "scary"?

[Jordan K. Hubbard]

*sigh*

If Linus Torvalds had said that HFS ate babies and eroded the moral  
fiber of the nation's youth, would you still be asking this question?   
Probably not, since that would be clearly recognizable hyperbole.    
Him saying it's "complete and utter crap" without any supporting  
evidence or even any specifics, however, evidently merits some sort of  
serious response, does it? :-)

Perhaps you should ask your boss whether he follows all the successful  
deployments (both enterprise and otherwise) of XServes or if he  
follows the random pronouncements of someone who had nothing to do  
with the development of MacOSX, does not use it, and in fact is  
seriously biased against anything but the OS he *did* create.  Hardly  
the most objective opinion.

- Jordan

On Feb 5, 2008, at 6:49 PM, Tabitha McNerney wrote:

> Did anyone notice Linus Torvold's calling the HFS file system  
> "scary" in Australia recently? Here's the link:
>
> http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/torvalds-pans-apples-os-x/2008/02/05/1202090393959.html
>
> "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."
> If HFS is really scary, I wonder what the trend is looking like for  
> ZFS? Will MacPorts be capable of working with ZFS file systems?  
> Unfortunately, after Linus says something like this, my boss gets  
> worried and asks me questions like this and makes him feel less  
> confident about having an Xserve. :-(
>
> Thanks,
>
> T.M.
>
>
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