Re: biggest partition (HFS FST.. bleh)

[jmaricon@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Jim Maricondo)]

I don't know if anyone else has noticed this, but for me (and this has
happened MANY times, so it's not just a fluke, and with different
sized volumes, etc etc) In my opinion:

The HFS FST is unreliable for volumes about >100MB with more than 6,000 files.

After that amount, once you start renaming files or moving or deleting
them, or adding new ones after fragmentation starts to set in, the HFS
FST will chew your disk.  What do I mean by chew?  Mess up the
directory; the short term signal is that you will get a GS/OS "Invalid
block number" error trying to work with the volume, and if you further
try to delete/add /rename/move files, you will notice further
problems.  Apple Disk First Aid (on the Mac) reports this problem as
"invalid sibling link" but won't fix it.  Norton utilities 2.0 report
other problems, and won't fix them either.  The only fix I know of is
to copy all the files off the disk, re-format, and copy them all
back. (on the mac)  A very time consuming process.

SIGH..

 <<Jim

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