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Save space on UFS volumes
Authored by: petri on Dec 10, '05 05:09:40PM

I think you're correct, but what I think what merlin meant is that UFS is a BSD-style file system in the sense that file systems could be divided into "families" of file systems. In this case, HFS+ would be a HFS-style, or Mac-style, file system. So, the efficiency of storing very many tiny files would thus depend on what style the file system was (in this case, merlin claims BSD-style fs'es win over HFS-style) without regard to however the OSX BSD subsystem is optimised. By the way, it seems to me like the BSD subsystem component is (mostly? only?) userland, which would mean that it doesn't really affect the fs driver's way of accessing files.

Also, the note about case-sensitive file names still applies.



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