>as for slowness my testing of the beta showed HFS+ to be 10 times >slower then UFS. a simple chmod on a single file was instant on UFS >but took nearly 5 seconds on HFS+
Hmmm... Well, all I can tell is you that switching from UFS to HFS+ on my system amazingly improved responsiveness. My original install took over 30 minutes, my reinstall on HFS+ took less than 15. I boot much faster, and IE launches in about 5 bounces where it used to take, well, alot more. The whole system just feels way more responsive. I popped open a terminal window, and chmodded a file, it came back instantly. If your experience was with the public beta, I suggest you reevalute on 1.0. The differences I'm seeing are dramatic! >which is a pretty large drawback which is unlikly to be solved in the >near future. UFS is supported NOW in linux. Being as the support is read-only though, I think I'll do just about as well with an HFS file-exchange partition. ______________________________________________________________________ Eric: I want to live in a world where software doesn't suck ////////// Richard: Any software that isn't free sucks ////////// [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linus: I'm interested in free beer ///// <http://www.3roses.com/> ////