Re: Goodbye HFS.FST (crashed HD again)

[shack@deimos.frii.com (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <50tn3q$j7b@nnrp1.news.primenet.com>,
John Bowling <johnlb@primenet.com> wrote:

>I'm running a 520M on my gs, with 2 128K HFS partitions.  I haven't had
>any problem.  When I feel that I need to optimize, I copy the data to
>other partitions, erase the partition, and copy back.  I will usually use
>the Orca shell compress utility to alphabetize the directories while it's
>on a ProDOS partition (so the listing does not have to be alphabetized
>every time by HFS -- one of the reasons it's slower than ProDOS).

Um, HFS uses a B tree for directories, not a linked structure like ProDOS.
So the directory is always alphabetical. Unless GS/OS does it differently
from a Mac that is.
-- 
Randy Shackelford                                 US Air Force officer
shack@frii.com                                    and Apple aficionado