[OS X TeX] More about UFS

[Bob Kerstetter]

I'm new to the list. So if this is too much off topic, just let me 
know. I have heard UFS is slower than Mac OS Extended. True? What does 
that mean? How can a file system be fast or slow? fsck seems to work on 
Mac OS Extended. Is something missing from my knowledge here? Thanks.

On Tuesday, Sep 10, 2002, at 07:40 US/Central, William Adams wrote:

> Alain asked:
>> I would like to know if it's a good idea to work under Jaguar with
>> tetex and texshop on a UFS Volume ?
>
> Sure, that nets you case sensitive file-system, frees you from needing
> third-party tools for disk repair (use fsck), and is actually secure 
> (no
> accessing files when booting into OS 9).
>
> On the down-side, a lot of third-party Carbon apps can't work on a
> System w/ UFS (the ones that expect resource forks, e.g., FreeHand 10),
> and you lose the spiffy indexing features of HFS+ (makes Sherlock / 
> Find fast)
>
> William
>
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