Re: Goodbye HFS.FST (crashed HD again)

[crownmi@zap.io.org (Myles Fudge)]

In article <50tn3q$j7b@nnrp1.news.primenet.com>,
John Bowling <johnlb@primenet.com> wrote:
>In article <50t3pg$nd8@europa.frii.com>,
>Randy Shackelford <shack@deimos.frii.com> wrote:
>>In article <50sp3a$29q@zap.io.org>, Myles Fudge <crownmi@zap.io.org> wrote:
>>>I am at my wits end with the 'Generic FST error' and a host of other 
>>My first question is what in the crap can you do with a 1 gig hard disk on a

>I'm running a 520M on my gs, with 2 128K HFS partitions.  I haven't had
>any problem.

I wonder if it's a bother to mention that I had about 15,000 files on 
that sucker and I also found that gs/os choked on file copies > 1000 
files at a time.  Actually, that was usually when the directory 
structures would crap out.  Could it be related to the way the RamFAST 
uses cache in it's copying scheme?

Would you please detail your system for me in terms of hardware and 
software at boot time?  Maybe I'll find something in there.

>...HFS -- one of the reasons it's slower than ProDOS).

Another reason that I hate HFS... incredibly slow!

>I usually try to keep at least one ProDOS 32M partition empty for
>temporary use.

A very good idea, too.  However, one real difficulty with a 32mb limit is 
the usefulness of your desktop cluttered with multiple partitions.  A nice
pulldown list of all mounted volumes would better replace the usual 
desktop layout.  I'd prefer to have my files and working folders on the
desktop, instead of partition icons.
-- 
Myles Fudge  (crownmi@io.org)
http://www.io.org/~crownmi/pleasure.html