Re:Dokan – User Mode File Systems on Windows
by baldfat on Monday April 04, 2016 @01:50PM
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Just do a little research on HFS+ issues. It is not a small problem. This was one of the reasons why the OS X server was killed.
Some limitations that really do have a major impact on people: (Features Missing)
data checksums
nanosecond timestamps
concurrent access (let more than one process at the time access the filesystem)
checksumming
snapshotting
longer time frame (February 6 2040 for HFS+)
sparse file support
real hard links
Those things preventing the system from being usable one way, or another. So, for my experience, worse than paper cuts. Not to mention there is a great idiom about death by paper cuts.
> HFS+ problems are a disaster. I lost 2 10 hour days of video edits and work and my backup were also garbage.
I haven't. No one else I know has. You're missing my point that this is anecdotal data. It's not a disaster if it's not impacting enough users.
> You know you are not seeing things clearly when you say statements like that.
You know you are not seeing things clearly when you think you know how clearly someone is seeing things. I know, for example, not to store Cyrillic music names on my MBP after I hit a bug. I have also read how bad HDF+ is, legacy wise. However, that's one factor of usability, among many. I've lost more raids than hfs+ files. Every filesystem has bugs, whether it's a huge factor or not is whether enough people encounter them or not.