Re: Advantages to HFS drives?

[jimmys@bonnie.ics.uci.edu (Jimmy Shaw)]

In article <93Aug4.215017-0600.138441@amisk.cs.ualberta.ca> glyn@cs.ualberta.ca writes:
>Are there any advantages to using HFS besides the larger partitions
>and less restrictive file names?  The main thing I noticed about them
>is that file access seems to take forever ...

Other than the already mentioned advantages, HFS are actually faster
dealing with larger files than with smaller ones.  However, I don't
know how the real world speed would compare with a ProDOS/GSOS
partition.  My quess is that on the GS, HFS would be slower than
the native format.

>Does anyone know what backup software does/does not work with HFS?

The last time I checked, ProSEL 16's Backup/Restore utility did not
work with HFS.  I believe the Archiver that came with System 6 and
the new release of Salvation Bakkup 2.0 are both compatible with
HFS.

>--
>        G. Devin Reade          glyn@cs.ualberta.ca

Jimmy



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