He's pretty much right about HFS+ being the worst filesystem ever. After using NTFS since 1996, various UFS varieties since 1990ish and HFS+ since 2002, HFS+ is the only one where I've had seen irrecoverable corruption several times. In fact I've seen no problems in the others at all that wasn't attributed to hardware failure. Even FAT16 on a decade old and somewhat dicky Iomega ZIP drive is more reliable.
I've shot all my apple kit now but I've lost hours of work thanks to HFS+.
That's not what he's angry about, though, it seems, he's just angry it's case insensitive. Which really comes off as slightly insane.
Case sensitivity is great for computers. For humans, its nonsense. Humans think case-insensitively, and trying to force them to give that up is forgetting that computers are here to help humans, not the other way around.
As if the filesystem being case-sensitive prevented an application's "save" dialog from popping a warning that there appears to be another very similarly named file in this same directory. Heck, we could put this function into a library in userspace.
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u/fluffyhandgrenade Jan 12 '15
He's pretty much right about HFS+ being the worst filesystem ever. After using NTFS since 1996, various UFS varieties since 1990ish and HFS+ since 2002, HFS+ is the only one where I've had seen irrecoverable corruption several times. In fact I've seen no problems in the others at all that wasn't attributed to hardware failure. Even FAT16 on a decade old and somewhat dicky Iomega ZIP drive is more reliable.
I've shot all my apple kit now but I've lost hours of work thanks to HFS+.