Does anyone still need to create legacy HFS filesystems?

Fri Feb 3 02:44:38 UTC 2012

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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