Subject: Re: HFSUTILS
To: Steve Revilak <revilak@umbsky.cc.umb.edu>
From: David A. Gatwood <marsmail@globegate.utm.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 11/03/1998 18:40:40
On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Steve Revilak wrote:

> So far, the corruption problem got fixed.  Rob posted a 3.2.4
> release...I've been using it for three weeks, on a daily basis;
> frequent disk scans of the mac volume...not a *single* problem!  In
> this regard, I'd say it's *way* more stable.

Cool.

<snip>

> I don't know how machine-specific these occurences are (I'm using a
> quadra 605).  

I'm not sure about the crashes, but the fs corruption extends to other
platforms.  We've had trouble under MkLinux using hfsutils, but it's still
better at writing than MkLinux's in-kernel support, as hfsutils' damage is
at least usually repairable....


Later,
David

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