Re: Partitioning 730MB HD?

[jlee@ics.uci.edu (Orion Pax)]

Mitchell Spector (spector@vax2.concordia.ca) wrote:
: 	Why? Well from what I hear HFS is very unstable on a IIgs. There
: are strong rumours about corruption occurring with large HFS partitions, a
: major bug/flaw in the HFS.FST if you will. You should also know that file

Please don't state it as a fact when you haven't really experienced it
yourself.  As you said, it's only rumors.  I used the HFS FST and have
little problems.  Of course it's only a 32 MB partition, but so what.

It was the Golden Orchard CD which goes into partition sizes most Apple II
people don't normally use that exposes some unreliability in HFS at those
sizes.

: 	- The HFS.FST has serious bugs that can cause damage

No, the HFS has no serious bugs or it would never had be released and
people wouldn't even be aple to use it.  Instead, HFS will act strange
in extremely large parititon sizes and not guaranteed at those sizes,
BUT no problems in 32 mb to 200 mb sizes.  Just be aware to not store
sensitive stuff on HFS mostly because there is no utility to fix it if
something goes bad.

: 	- No utilities to handle HFS devices on a IIgs

Yup.

: 	I think a GSOS.FST compatible with ProDOS, but breaks the 32MB
: device limit and file names limitation would solve almost all of that.
: A hybrid ProDOS/HFS filing system... :) Guess I'm just dreaming though.

Basically a rewrite of the ProDOS filesystem with 32-bit index pointers.
Then might as well add file permissions, links, et al. :)

Joseph
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