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And finally, Apple doesn't need ZFS, necessarily. They need a standardized FS though. HFS+ is ghetto, and a drive formatted HFS+ is essentially useless to any other type of machine.

I could make the argument about Reiser or ExtN outside of *nix, or NTFS outside of windows. There's a better attack here to be made than this one.



See, the reason I want HFS+ gone is that NOTHING supports it. NTFS is supported on Mac OS, albeit read-only. NTFS is readable on most Linux's. EXT is readable by a number of OS's. And I don't want ReiserFS on my Mac. I don't want to be killed and stuffed in a suitcase by my filesystem.


HFS is no more proprietary than NTFS. There's a free HFS reader available:

http://www.catacombae.org/hfsx.html

Or a commercial option:

http://www.paragon-software.com/home/hfs-windows/

These solutions are available if you just look for them. And, regarding your other comment, aliases and symlinks still work . . .


I know aliases and such still work, but you cannot, as far as I can tell, make an alias of yer HD on the desktop. Clearly yer not supposed to, but it just irked me.

Thanks for the HFS links. I've never seen either of those before. Coulda saved me a lot of time and money!




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