Re: Patch for **MAJOR** HFS.FST Bug

[snit@nevada.edu (Snit)]

Marc Sira enlightened us with: 
: In our last episode (and uncharacteristically, in cba2 :),
: toddpw@beat.ugcs.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel) said:

: >You'd be better off writing a better filesystem period. HFS as implemented on
: >the Mac is pretty nice, but that'd be hard for people outside of Apple to work
: >on...

: HFS does seem reasonable, though efficiency seem to suffer on large partitions
: (in terms of space) and in general (in terms of speed). It is suitable for
: pretty heavy-duty applications though.

: Is it implemented differently on the Mac, or do you just refer to the
: lack of decent utilities for it on the GS? It seems it might benefit from
: some equivalent to Berkeley Fast File, unless it already has that (would
: explain some of the slowness in writes :).

One big weakness of HFS, at least on the MacOS, is that it has a
functional limit of 32K files.  I run a server which is hitting that
limit.  Really wish Apple would come up with a fix.  My alternatives
are to use mult partitions (a pain in the rump) or go to NT.  Sigh.