Article:  |
Ten Things I Dig About Panther | |
| Subject: | UFS implementation needs to be updated | |
| Date: | 2003-10-22 15:37:13 | |
| From: | anonymous2 | |
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Here is my story. Got a PB G4/400/256 (Mercury) as a hand-me-down about a year and a half ago. Installed MacOSX from scratch and being familiar with Unix and not with MacOS Classic I picked UFS instead of HFS+ . For the past year I have been bitching on how slow the system was while people all around me told me that Jaguar was 'usable' on a 500Mhz. When last week I decided to do a last effort attempt before ditching MacOSX in favor of Linux o OpenBSD I found some postings that lead me to the ugly discovery that the UFS implementation in MacOSX is years old and lacks any of the optimizations that are common in the BSD world. Now I reinstalled 10.2 with HFS+ and my G4 works like a charm. I don't know if I should be mad at myself for picking the wrong choice or at Apple to release such atrociously slow implementation.
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