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Re: .sit files



On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 10:51:17AM -0500, W. Crowshaw wrote:
> Actually, it doesn't hurt anything if the MacOS HFS FS is mounted on the kernel
> and hmount'ed with hfsutils. I access the HFS FS both mounted and hmounted
> all the time.

then you have been lucky.  the kernel will NOT be aware of the changes
to the filesystem that your making behind its back with hfsutils,
since hfsutils manipulates the raw device (/dev/[sh]d?[0-9]*).
modifying a read-write mounted filesystem with hfsutils is just asking
for serious filesystem corruption and even possibly a kernel
malfunction. 

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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