Coxy--great points about the added software on top of HFS+. Again, it looks like another bad case of the sedimentary rock phenomenon. Remember all those extensions we needed from around System 7.5 forward? The default Mac OS 9 installation alone has nearly an entire row on an 800 x 600 display, and any time you get a bunch of extensions, you're asking for problems. (Those of us who survived the olden days of troubleshooting INIT and cdev conflicts certainly remember how unstable everything could get).

When the new filing system comes out someday, those features will certainly be rolled into it rather than built on top of an old platform, or at least we can hope.