HFS Patch & Golden Orchard, Golden Orchard Vol. 2?!?, etc.

[digisoft@hypermall.com (Jim Maricondo)]

The question has come up on how/if this patch will affect Golden Orchard...

This bug fix would have saved me AT LEAST a hundred hours of work (or more) in
the Golden Orchard CD (thus pushing back the release by several
months...), but the end effect for users is negligible.  I have only
recently heard of a very few files on Golden Orchard that I did not catch
that were rendered unreadable on the GS by the bug in the FST, and I have
not verified this report yet.  Therefore I would postulate that this bug
fix would allow GS owners to read these few files that were unreadable
before.  But everything else should be the same.

Golden Orchard was built on a Mac via AppleShare, because the HFS FST
would eat it virtually instantly if it was being built on the GS.  The
only time the HFS FST was allowed to write to Golden Orchard was to set
all the Finder.Data files at the end, and I tested this extensively to
make sure that no other files that I could find were being screwed up.

You don't know how much I wish this bug fix was available when I was
creating Golden Orchard!!!  Sigh...

On a side note, if this bug fix were available back then, Golden Orchard
would probably be one HFS partition instead of 5...  And the price would
probably be cheaper too.

On another side note, there is a possibility of a Golden Orchard Vol. 2
(cheaper than Vol. 1).  I would like to base it mainly on people's
contributions, as I don't really have the time to collect everything
myself anymore, so it would not be a success without everyone's help. 
Anyone have any comments or reactions??

 <<Jim