Re: DarwinPorts (MacPorts) Advisory: Stay with at least Xcode 2.2.1 on Intel (if not PPC)

On Aug 27, 2006, at 3:49 AM, Tabitha McNerney wrote:

> I am most certain that Jordan K. Hubbard can shed more light on  
> Darwin UFS
> and if it was no longer needed then why is it that Leopard is not  
> going to
> kill off UFS?

Don't count on that.  Ryan and others are correct - UFS is deprecated  
and, for the last 2 or so releases, has been less of a good idea than  
you might think.  It's virtually unmaintained, has a number of known  
bugs, and is NOT the same UFS you will find on the other *BSDs.  They  
have a much more up to date UFS[2] code base and support features like  
Soft Updates and very large files.  The UFS code in MacOSX has not  
been updated for a long time and there are no plans to update it  
(remove, yes, update, no).  HFSX now more than adequately covers the  
case where case sensitivity is required, which pretty much put the  
last nail in UFS's coffin.

More importantly, I don't think that either UFS or HFS are the future  
and I think everyone would prefer that the number of active, legacy  
filesystems be kept to a minimum.

- Jordan