[G4] HFS+ vs. UFS for Panther boot partition on G4

[Philip J Robar]

On Nov 23, 2005, at 4:26 AM, Aaron wrote:

> I have a few hard disks that I'll shortly be reformatting. While  
> I'll probably format one of them, at least, to boot into OS X on  
> earlier Macs, I want to format one to be best for running OS X on  
> my G4 Dual MDD. I'm wondering about the advantages of the UNIX file  
> system vs. HFS+ for the OS X boot partition.
>
> I realize that files on such a partition won't be readable when  
> booting into OS 9 and I'm thinking that this may be an advantage,  
> since I could put data files there that I don't want to be easily  
> read by somebody who doesn't have my password. I'm also guessing  
> that OS X will run better on top of the UNIX FS, since it is, after  
> all, UNIX-based. Also, I may be running raw UNIX occasionally.
>
> Aside from not being able to move the disk to a machine that can't  
> handle UFS, what other disadvantages might there be to using it?  
> What other advantages?

While UFS is a vastly more robust file system than HFS+, it's a poor  
choice for an OS X system. Somewhere in Apple's knowledge base is an  
article on why this is so.


Phil
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