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 03:15:47 +0200
On Tuesday, September 4, 2001, at 02:49 , Chris Gehlker wrote:
On 9/3/01 5:04 PM, "Andreas Monitzer" <email@hidden> wrote:
UFS is actually slower than HFS+ on Darwin/Mac OS X, probably because
Apple didn't optimize the driver that much.
Well maybe but UFS is also a clunky old file system that doesn't even use
an
extents tree. HFS+ is comparatively much more modern.
But HFS+ is much more fragile. Some structural problems can't be fixed
except by reformatting or risking the loss of all data. If you do a fsck
on an UFS-device, it's like new (except the data is still there :)
afterwards, even if it was severely damaged (I already had that experience)
.
Of course, B-tree searching is much faster, but Sherlock - the only
interface to it on Mac OS X - is unusable anyways.
andy
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