Re: Partitioning 730MB HD?

[spector@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

In article jlee@ics.uci.edu (Orion Pax) writes...
>
>Mitchell Spector (spector@vax2.concordia.ca) wrote:
>: 	Why? Well from what I hear HFS is very unstable on a IIgs. There
>: are strong rumours about corruption occurring with large HFS partitions, a
>: major bug/flaw in the HFS.FST if you will. You should also know that file
> 
>Please don't state it as a fact when you haven't really experienced it
>yourself.  As you said, it's only rumors.  I used the HFS FST and have
>little problems.  Of course it's only a 32 MB partition, but so what.

	Did I? Re-read the above, I was very careful _not_ to state that
as fact since as you say, I haven't experienced it myself. Note that I
said, "from what I heard..." and "there are strong rumours...". Further
below I did kind of state it as fact when listing things in point form,
but I assume what I first said has an affect on the rest of the posting.

>: 	- The HFS.FST has serious bugs that can cause damage
> 
>No, the HFS has no serious bugs or it would never had be released and
>people wouldn't even be aple to use it.  Instead, HFS will act strange
>in extremely large parititon sizes and not guaranteed at those sizes,
>BUT no problems in 32 mb to 200 mb sizes.  Just be aware to not store
>sensitive stuff on HFS mostly because there is no utility to fix it if
>something goes bad.

	Corrupting files or a directory map (even if only more likely
in larger sized volumes) without reason sounds like a serious bug to me. 
I don't think it was intended as a bonus feature... :) Does anyone know 
the exact size before HFS starts to do strange things? Each of my HFS 
partitions would be ~237MB each, is that in the red?

>: 	I think a GSOS.FST compatible with ProDOS, but breaks the 32MB
>: device limit and file names limitation would solve almost all of that.
>: A hybrid ProDOS/HFS filing system... :) Guess I'm just dreaming though.
> 
>Basically a rewrite of the ProDOS filesystem with 32-bit index pointers.
>Then might as well add file permissions, links, et al. :)

	As someone else stated, it would make more sense to improve the
HFS.FST and write GS utilities to handle them. They brought up a few points
I hadn't originally thought of. Besides which, I think there's a better 
chance we'll see an HFS utility than a "GSOS.FST". :) 

>Joseph
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