On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 05:45:38PM -0800, John Reiser wrote:
> Does anyone object [to dropping support for HFS]?
Plain HFS has no journal, so there are workloads where HFS is faster
than HFS+ which has a journal. Is it economical to cater to such cases?
Probably not. However, I do have a PowerPC Mac Mini that runs plain HFS
and Fedora 10 with ext3.
Plain HFS+ isn't journalled either - that's an optional extension.
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