On 8/27/05 17:20, "Tom Limoncelli" <email@hidden> wrote:
>> There are applications that will have issues with it, there are
>> applications
>> that will have problems the other way. Again, neither is always
>> better or
>> worse. It's just what you need/like to use. The whole case (in)
>> sensitive
>> argument is like Ford v. Chevy, only with less beer and exhaust.
>
> I agree. However you missed some other points.
>
> UFS isn't journalled. Thus, if you crash the fsck time can be
> hours. Point HFS+
>
> UFS is more reliable, it has had a long history of reliability
> studies performed on it. The BSD development team has a "reliability
> is the top priority" policy. Point UFS.
Prove it. I've had no reliablilty issues whatsoever that were due to HFS.
>
> UFS is faster. Dozens of people have gotten their PhD by developing
> performance enhancements to UFS and all those code changes were
> merged into the FreeBSD kernel. Point UFS.
Again, prove it.
>
> HFS+ craps out if you do many hard links, making reboot times hours
> instead of minutes. Point UFS.
>
> Tiger supports booting on UFS and HFS+. Jaguar only supports HFS+.
> Point HFS+.
What does 10.2 have to do with anything?
>
>
> It all depends on what your needs are. And if your needs are "big
> storage" (terabytes of data) then Apple isn't a serious player.
> (Apple's definition of "big storage" isn't very big).
Define "big". I know quite a few people with multi-terabyte systems on HFS+.
OS X and HFS can handle large filesystems quite nicely.
>
> If Apple added journaling to UFS then I would switch to it in a flash
> on all my servers. I can't trust HFS+. If they merged in Kirk's UFS
> "soft updates" and "snapshots" from FreeBSD it would be a no-
> brainer. That stuff rocks.
Backups are another way to never have to trust your file system. But I have
yet to see hard, reproducible data that says that UFS is noticeably more
reliable than HFS+.
--
John C. Welch Writer/Analyst
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