This is likely just my ignorance speaking in regards to the deeper workings of filesystems, but having used OS 7-9 and OS X since release, the issue brought up in the article has never been an issue for myself, my colleagues and friends as we sent data back and forth, or even something I was aware of as I used various Macs.<p>Is there a specific reason that this becomes problematic to even most power users outside of specific files being read differently by older tools? Reading the Linus rant on HFS+ I can understand to some degree and appreciate where this becomes a problem, but it just seems like the author found a small outlier issue with how an old font was handled with HFS(+) and condemned the entire system.