Re: HFS.FST patch

[lesherjt@vuse.vanderbilt.edu (John Lesher)]

Donald 'X-caiver' Pattee Jr (afn45687@afn.org) wrote:
: What is this patch? I have just about all of my harddrive formatted under
: HFS (An entire 105meg SyQuest removable is HFS and about 90% of my 540meg
: harddrive is HFS partitioned). I haven`t run into problems...as far as I
: have noticed. 

The HFS.FST has an error which causes it to improperly calculate some
physical addresses.  You will not notice this error if your HFS partitions
are small enough.

: Is this something that is going to need to be installed even if i haven`t
: noticed anything yet, or does it just correct problems that the HFS.FST has
: with certain performatted drives etc...

Even if your partitions will never see the error, it is still a good idea
to patch the FST.  Someday, your partitions may be bigger, and you'd hate
to have corrupted files.  Do it now and get it over with.

: I am using hte version of the HFS.FST that came with my install of 6.0.1...

This is the buggy version.  Get your patch at one of the FTP sites.

Tilghman