Re: size of HFS partitions?

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

In article wily@svpal.svpal.org (Paul Creager) writes...
>
>Tom Dolezal (dolezal@riter.computize.com) wrote:
> 
>: I know the maximum ProDOS partition on a drive is 32MB.  My question
>: is: can GS/OS deal with HFS partitions larger than 32MB?
> 
>Yes, however there have been reports of the HFS FST "flaking out"; 
>corrupted files and so forth.  The main drawback is there are no GS 
>utilities that can repair a HFS volume.  

	I'm surprised _three years_ after introducing the HFS FST, no one 
has even *attempted* to write utilities to touch HFS volumes on the IIgs.
Especially considering the only way to make use of large hardrives on a
GS (730MB+ is not uncommon these days) is to create HFS partitions.

	What we desparately need is a simple program to optimize, undelete,
repair and other basic functions with HFS. I find it silly that I should
have to buy an old Macintosh, for which it's sole function would be 
maintaining any HFS partition(s) on my future hardrive. :/ I'd certainly
pay a high shareware fee to the first person who can come up with such
a utility program, and I doubt I'm alone here...

>Wily

Mitchell Spector
m_spect@vega.concordia.ca / spector@vax2.concordia.ca