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

[John Baltutis]

On 11/23/05, Aaron <macuser at aarons.fastmail.fm> 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?

I wouldn't advise it. See
<http://developer.apple.com/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/BPFileSystem/index.html>
for comparisions.