Re: Patch for **MAJOR** HFS.FST Bug

[toh@freenet.Victoria.BC.CA (Marc Sira)]

In our last episode (and uncharacteristically, in cba2 :),
toddpw@beat.ugcs.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel) said:

>You'd be better off writing a better filesystem period. HFS as implemented on
>the Mac is pretty nice, but that'd be hard for people outside of Apple to work
>on...

HFS does seem reasonable, though efficiency seem to suffer on large partitions
(in terms of space) and in general (in terms of speed). It is suitable for
pretty heavy-duty applications though.

Is it implemented differently on the Mac, or do you just refer to the
lack of decent utilities for it on the GS? It seems it might benefit from
some equivalent to Berkeley Fast File, unless it already has that (would
explain some of the slowness in writes :).

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