Kevin Ballard <kevin@xxxxxx> writes: > I agree, Linus's approach is indeed fast. And if speed is more > important than treating filenames as text instead of octets, then so > be it. This is a trade-off. But a trade-off doesn't mean one approach > is "wrong", it just means the authors of HFS+ thought it was an > acceptable trade-off. HFS+ wasn't designed to be a high-performance > filesystem that deals with lots of files, it was designed to be a > filesystem used by regular people on the Mac, and I believe treating > filenames as text is a good choice in this scenario. Regular people have brains, not filesystems. HFS+ is employed by computers, and computers can produce or query or process lots of data in very short time spans, in their own pace. And if Mac users did not want to make use of that, they would still be using Mac classics. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
