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Re: Linus rant on HFS+

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From Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject Re: Linus rant on HFS+
Date 26 Jan 2015 02:00:02 GMT
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On 2015-01-26, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> wrote:
>
> Linus Torvalds: Apple's HFS+ is probably the worst file system ever
>
>> http://www.itworld.com/article/2868393/linus-torvalds-apples-hfs-is-probably-the-worst-file-system-ever.html
>
>
> His hate of HFS+ seems to be focus on its case insensitive nature.
>
> Aside from Linus "slight" bias against Apple and HFS+, is there anything
> that supports his rant that case insensitive makes for bad file system ?
>
> The only thing I could think of is the overhead of having to store the
> file name in a normalised fashion (for lookups) and the original
> case-preserved filename which is displayed.  (I assume this is how it
> works).
>
> Is this significant ?

If you have to ask...

The author of the article asserts that case insensitivity "causes a lot
of problems", but I have yet to see these supposed problems in the
almost 30 years of using HFS in Mac OS. How has it "caused problems" for
you?

Useless troll. Good work.

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Linus rant on HFS+ JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-01-25 20:46 -0500
  Re: Linus rant on HFS+ Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-01-26 02:00 +0000
    Re: Linus rant on HFS+ JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-01-26 12:30 -0500
      Re: Linus rant on HFS+ Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-01-26 17:40 +0000
      Re: Linus rant on HFS+ Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-01-26 17:45 +0000
        Re: Linus rant on HFS+ Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-01-26 17:47 +0000
    Re: Linus rant on HFS+ Kevin McMurtrie <mcmurtrie@pixelmemory.us> - 2015-01-27 20:52 -0800
      Re: Linus rant on HFS+ Electric Comet <electric-comet@mail.invalid> - 2015-01-27 21:11 -0800
        Re: Linus rant on HFS+ Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-01-28 15:01 +0000
          Re: Linus rant on HFS+ Joanna Shuttleworth <js@example.com> - 2015-01-29 08:14 +0000
            Re: Linus rant on HFS+ Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-01-29 15:17 +0000
      Re: Linus rant on HFS+ Alan Baker <alangbaker@telus.net> - 2015-01-27 22:39 -0800
      Re: Linus rant on HFS+ Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-01-28 14:59 +0000
      Re: Linus rant on HFS+ Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2015-01-28 12:21 -0500
        Re: Linus rant on HFS+ Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-01-28 17:32 +0000
  Re: Linus rant on HFS+ nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-01-25 21:13 -0500
  Re: Linus rant on HFS+ Jerry Bishop <jerry.bishop@nowhere.nohow.com> - 2015-01-26 14:52 -0500
    Re: Linus rant on HFS+ Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-01-27 09:27 +1300
    Re: Linus rant on HFS+ Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2015-01-26 15:36 -0500
      Re: Linus rant on HFS+ Electric Comet <electric-comet@mail.invalid> - 2015-01-28 13:45 -0800
        Re: Linus rant on HFS+ Alan Baker <alangbaker@telus.net> - 2015-01-28 13:52 -0800
        Re: Linus rant on HFS+ Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2015-01-28 22:14 +0000
          Re: Linus rant on HFS+ Electric Comet <electric-comet@mail.invalid> - 2015-01-28 18:53 -0800
            Re: Linus rant on HFS+ Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2015-01-29 10:47 +0000
    Re: Linus rant on HFS+ Electric Comet <electric-comet@mail.invalid> - 2015-01-26 16:38 -0800

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