Re: Any advantages of Unix formatting
Re: Any advantages of Unix formatting
- Subject: Re: Any advantages of Unix formatting
- From: Andreas Monitzer <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 02:04:10 +0200
This is definitely offtopic!
On Tuesday, September 4, 2001, at 01:38 , Ray Lancashire wrote:
Does anyone know whether there are any advantages in formatting a Mac OS
X Hard Drive as Unix over formatting as Mac OS Extended ?
You can have two files in the same directory whose only difference in
names is the case, for instance "hello" and "Hello". This is important for
some UNIX-apps like apache and python, but doesn't matter for a regular
user.
Would Mac OS X be any faster using a Unix File format, since Darwin is
base on a Unix Operating System ?
UFS is actually slower than HFS+ on Darwin/Mac OS X, probably because
Apple didn't optimize the driver that much.
andy
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Discussion forthcoming.