Re: HFS question

["Jeff Blakeney" <jeff.blakeney@a2central.com.remove-va7-this>]

  To: mojoehand
On Mon, 8 Dec 2008 20:42:48 -0800, mojoehand wrote:

> If GS/OS will read/write an HFS volume, is there any reason that I
> couldn't have one ProDOS boot partition and the rest of a disk as HFS
> for use by the GS? In other words, will ProDOS programs and data files
> run ok from an HFS partition, once I've booted from a ProDOS partion?
> This would solve the annoyance of having several 32MB partitions.

Yes, you can partition your hard drive with one ProDOS and one HFS
partition but as others have pointed out, ProDOS 8 applications will
only see the ProDOS partition.

Another thing to consider is that the HFS FST for the IIgs is rather
buggy.  There is a patch available that fixes one bug, although it is a
doozy, but I believe there are still other knowns bugs that haven't been
dealt with.

Even with the patch HFS FST, there are no disk utilities for HFS for
repairing a damaged HFS partition for the IIgs.  This means you'd need
to partition the drive on a Mac or go through a couple extra steps when
partitioning on the IIgs to make the drive mountable on a Mac to use
disk utility software on it to repair any damamge to your HFS partition.

Finally, I personally find the HFS partition to be rather slow.

My IIgs currently has a 1.2 GB SCSI hard drive connected to a RamFAST
SCSI card with eleven 32 MB ProDOS partitions and one 788 MB HFS
partition.  The HFS partition is just used as temporary storage and I
don't keep anything that isn't replacable on it.