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| − | HFS+, or Hierarchical File System Plus, is the file system designed by Apple Computer[http://www.apple.com] to supersede HFS. First introduced with Mac OS 8.1, one of the biggest differences was the lower allocation block size of 4kb, thereby increasing performance and lowering fragmentation [http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn1121.html#HFSPlus].
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| − | There are structurally many differences between HFS and HFS+, which are listed below[http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn1150.html#HFSPlusBasics]:
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| − | <P><B>Feature</B></p>
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| − | <P><B>HFS</B></p>
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| − | </TD><TD>
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| − | <P><B>HFS Plus</B></p>
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| − | </TD><TD>
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| − | <P><B>Benefit/Comment</B></p>
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| − | </TD></TR>
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| − | <P>User visible name</p>
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| − | </TD><TD>
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| − | <P>Mac OS Standard</p>
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| − | <P>Mac OS Extended</p>
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| − | </TD></TR>
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| − | <P>Number of allocation blocks</p>
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| − | <P>16 bits worth</p>
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| − | </TD><TD>
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| − | <P>32 bits worth</p>
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| − | <P>Radical decrease in disk space used on large
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| − | volumes, and a larger number of files per volume.</p>
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| − | </TD></TR>
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| − | <P>Long file names</p>
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| − | <P>31 characters</p>
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| − | <P>255 characters</p>
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| − | <P>Obvious user benefit; also improves
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| − | cross-platform compatibility</p>
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| − | <P>File name encoding</p>
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| − | <P>MacRoman</p>
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| − | <P>Unicode</p>
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| − | <P>Allows for international-friendly file names,
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| − | including mixed script names</p>
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| − | </TD></TR>
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| − | <P>File/folder attributes</p>
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| − | <P>Support for fixed size attributes (FileInfo and
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| − | ExtendedFileInfo)</p>
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| − | <P>Allows for future meta-data extensions</p>
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| − | <P>Future systems may use metadata for a richer
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| − | Finder experience</p>
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| − | </TD></TR>
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| − | <P>OS startup support</p>
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| − | <P>System Folder ID</p>
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| − | <P>Also supports a dedicated startup file</p>
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| − | <P>May help non-Mac OS systems to boot from HFS
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| − | Plus volumes</p>
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| − | <P>catalog node size</p>
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| − | <P>512 bytes</p>
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| − | <P>4 KB</p>
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| − | <P>Maintains efficiency in the face of the other
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| − | changes. (This larger catalog node size is due to
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| − | the much longer file names [512 bytes as opposed to
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| − | 32 bytes], and larger catalog records (because of
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| − | more/larger fields)).</p>
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| − | <P>Maximum file size</p>
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| − | <P>2<SUP>31</SUP> bytes</p>
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| − | <P>2<SUP>63</SUP> bytes</p>
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| − | <P>Obvious user benefit, especially for multimedia
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| − | content creators.</p></td>
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| − | </tr>
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| − | </table></CENTER>
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| − | An HFS+ volume contains five special files that are necessary to the file system:
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| − | Catalog file
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| − | <li>Extents overflow file
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| − | Allocation file
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| − | <li>Attributes file
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| − | Startup file
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| − | </nl>
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