&gt; HFS+ isn&#x27;t so much &quot;crazy&quot; as it is &quot;really friggin old&quot;.<p>Exactly. It was also developed for an entirely different non-UNIX operating system.  Resource forks were <i>really</i> important and commonly used and understood in Classic Mac OS.<p>The only crazy thing about the situation is that Apple hasn&#x27;t made a more typical UNIX filesystem as the default since they retired the Classic environment.  What&#x27;s even crazier is that they <i>used</i> to support one (UFS) but removed that support in Leopard:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Unix_File_System" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Unix_File_System</a>