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Re: HFS+ (MacOS) in contrast to EXT2 (Linux-i386)



On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 11:02:03PM +0200, Otto Wyss wrote:
> While reading the thread about "HFS Plus on Linux ?" I had a experience I want
> to share with you. 
> 
> Within a an hour I had to hard reset both of my computers, first my Linux-i386
> due to a complete lockup of the system while using el3diag, second my powermac
> due to an not responding USB-keyboard/-mouse. Now while the Mac restarted
> without any fuse I had to fix the ext2-fs manually for about 15min. Luckally it
> seems I haven't lost anything on both system. 

both filesystems MUST be fscked after such a crash, macos simply isn't
bothering.  

> I leave it up to you to draw any conclusion.

the conclusion is macos is just stuffing its head in the sand.

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

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