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Actually, as of Windows 8.1 (64-bit only), ReFS is now supported which does have those features:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReFS

So in the near future, Windows will have an answer for the general mainstream, while OS X will be left far behind.

Even ignoring the checksumming issue, HFS+ has known pathologies not only in reliability but in performance compared to NTFS or even ext4 on Linux.

HFS+ is long overdue for replacement.



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