[tech] A question of File System

[David Cake]

>  >
>>  And if you want pretty pink flowers, well, I'm sure Apple will have
>>  a filesystem with them soon... in five fruity flavours.
>
>Dom (ex-Be guy who wrote BFS) is working on a new FS at apple. That
>should kick ass. BFS had all sorts of really nice things like
>journalling and indexed file attributes. If Apple let him implement that
>kind of thing it'll be great. The lack of attributes and the lack of
>automatic metadata indexing on unix filesystems sucks. If OS X got that
>it just might make me give up OS 9.

	Its about time. A good filesystem has been an obvious lack of 
Mac OS X for some time, and there was much rejoicing in some circles 
when Dom was hired.

At 2:20 PM +0800 23/4/02, Nick Bannon wrote:
>That's definitely got some promise. It's kinda irritating at the moment
>because it doesn't have the simple ext2 attributes (immutable bit,
>etc), but there is or has been a patch to provide that. What it ought
>to get at some stage is more generic extended attributes, eg somewhere
>to store ACL's for Samba.

	Not to mention handling those wacky Apple file attributes 
(Type, Creator, etc) properly.
	One of the particularly tragic things about Mac OS X is that 
old school NeXT people are always getting all worked up about HFS+s 
use of file attributes etc, and advocate using Apples fairly shocking 
UFS implementation instead, seemingly completely unaware of the sort 
of file features that have made it into modern unices.
	Cheers
		David