Re: HFS Utils?

[sbehrens@arrowweb.com (S�nke Behrens)]

"Barry Rees" <Barry.Rees@prodigy.net> wrote:

>Bruce Maples <themaples@worldnet.att.net> wrote in article
><32dd8097.104325927@netnews.worldnet.att.net>...
>> If so, how hard would it be to write some?  
>
>Difficult at best. It's my understanding that Apple will not provide the
>needed info.

Not correct, Apple does provide the needed info, even online (in Adobe
Acrobat format). It's just that
a) You need to know B* (or B+, take your pick :) trees fairly well,
   you don't have to be afraid of pointers and structs and
b) You'd need a fair amount of work and effort to actually create
   a good repair utility

In other words, you need someone who's firm in
C/Pascal/Modula-2/Assembler (take your pick) and knows his Basic Data
Structures and Algorithms _plus_ has the time and staying power to
pull this utility through.

>> Is HFS very hard to work with? What level of interest would there be?
>
>I don't know how much interest that there might really be out there, but
>personally I wouldn't even entertain the idea of using a HFS partition on
>my GS. Some people say that they have had no problems, BUT on the other
>hand I have seen more horror stories posted online about screwed up
>partitions than I have seen success stories.

I think the interest would be tremendous. 32MB partitions are not only
a bad joke, they are also very cumbersome to work with. If you have a
bit more storage space, there really is no viable alternative to HFS
right now. Plus, once a utility to handle HFS disks is there, errors
can be pinpointed and maybe, just _maybe_ another fix will happen (I
can dream, can't I? ;-).
Personally, I'm using a HFS partition (500 meg) with no ill effects so
far, but I'd sure love to be able to diagnose it. That's it:
Diagnostics alone would help, so if I see that there is a problem, I
can take it to a Mac and let Norton have a go.

Yours
Soenke
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