Re: ProDOS misc. questions

[shack@deimos.frii.com (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <4tpjp8$494@darla.visi.com>, Nathan Mates <nathan@visi.com> wrote:
>In article <4tp3qu$1v3@nntp5.u.washington.edu>,
>Derek Peschel <dpeschel@u.washington.edu> wrote:
>>Most people probably understand the drawbacks of HFS now.  But I have to ask,
>>So what?  It could be worse.  HFS does keep the data in several places.
>>Detecting problems is hard, repairing them is relatively easy because of that.
>
>   Yo. Context checking time. This being comp.sys.apple2, I was
>talking about the GS implementation of HFS, which has a total of ZERO
>problem detection or repair programs available. The HFS FST mucks up,
>data corruption can happen for months before you really notice it. By
>then, a lot of lesser-accessed files are toast.

There were none for ProDOS either until someone wrote 'em. So why doesn't
someone get on the stick and write a volume repair and optimizer app for HFS?
Then I wouldn't have to go to the bother of connecting my hard disk to the
ol' Quadra so I can run Norton on it.

>   One bug has already been fixed in the HFS FST. Given that I've seen
>data corruption on disks that the one known bug would not affect, I'd
>bet that there's more.

I've never had problems on my 70 mb HFS partition
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