Re: ProDOS misc. questions

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

In article shack@deimos.frii.com (Randy Shackelford) writes...
>
>In article <4tpjp8$494@darla.visi.com>, Nathan Mates <nathan@visi.com> wrote:
>>   Yo. Context checking time. This being comp.sys.apple2, I was
>>talking about the GS implementation of HFS, which has a total of ZERO
>>problem detection or repair programs available. The HFS FST mucks up,
>>data corruption can happen for months before you really notice it. By
>>then, a lot of lesser-accessed files are toast.
> 
>There were none for ProDOS either until someone wrote 'em. So why doesn't
>someone get on the stick and write a volume repair and optimizer app for HFS?
>Then I wouldn't have to go to the bother of connecting my hard disk to the
>ol' Quadra so I can run Norton on it.

   Agreed. I've been wishing someone would write file management/repair
utilities for HFS on the IIgs, for over 4 years now! There was talk about
what software projects would be worthwhile and which would not, I think
HFS repair for the GS should be somewhere near the very top.

>>   One bug has already been fixed in the HFS FST. Given that I've seen
>>data corruption on disks that the one known bug would not affect, I'd
>>bet that there's more.
> 
>I've never had problems on my 70 mb HFS partition

   I've not had any either with my 220 MB HFS partitions (I have two),
but then I've never actually _used_ either as I'm utterely paranoid with 
all the horror stories going around. ;-) 

Mitchell Spector
spec@vax2.concordia.ca