On Jul 11, 2007, at 11:33 AM, Allen Briggs wrote:

> I used it a couple of years ago, but haven't used it recently.  I also
> had some instability, but I don't think it was UFS-related.  It was
> slow, but (at the time, anyway) much faster under NetBSD (compared to
> OS X -- OS X really seems to prefer HFS+).

I don't use UFS on any of my Macs at all anymore.  And with the  
version of Leopard that was made available at WWDC07, you can't create  
UFS volumes with Disk Utility anymore (you can still do it with the  
diskutil command line tool, however).

-- thorpej