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[xirium]

HFS has some cruft from pre-Unix implementations. However, this cruft allows you use the filing system on older versions of MocOS. HFS implements swap space as a hidden file. HFS+ implements journalling in same way. If you boot an older version of MocOS then you temporarily lose journalling. This is the behaviour that you'd want. However, some bits are messy, including directory seperators, Unicode file names, file forks and instant indexing of file names.

[michaelneale → xirium]

There was talk of ZFS for a while I think?

I guess it will be post leopard now.

[wmf → michaelneale]

ZFS is an alpha-quality optional add-on in Leopard; I guess most users won't see it until later.

[manvsmachine → wmf]

last time I heard, ZFS was going to be supported in the server version first.

[Kitto → xirium]

Thanks for the explanation.