Re: Mac OS file system "utter crap"?

[Florian Weimer <fw () deneb enyo de>]

* Alex Eckelberry:

> "I don't think they're equally flawed - I think Leopard is a much better
> system," he said. "(But) OS X in some ways is actually worse than
> Windows to program for. Their file system is complete and utter crap,
> which is scary."

There have been a few GIT issues due to the ill-defined nature of the
contents of certain Mac file system types.  If you read a directory,
sort by name, and store result in some other place, and repeat that
experiment after an OS upgrade, you might get different results.  He's
probably alluding to this issue.  This is indeed very broken, and can
harm anything that mechanically processes directory contents (and needs
to keep separate meta-data).  It's not something that the typical Mac
audience has to worry about, I guess.  It's simply a bit embarrassing
from an engineering POV.
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