Re: HFS+

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From: peter (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: HFS+
Date: 18:46 on 11 May 2005
> I've never had HFS+ render a file "unreadable," that I can recall.

I wouldn't put it past it.

I've had file system corruption on HFS+ render the file system
mountable but unrepairable, though. Which is something completely
alien to me on any UNIX system new enough to have fsck... if your
file system is so broken that fsck can't fix it then it's broken
indeed, and you have to have done something really appalling to
get it that messed up... we're talking about things like trashing
the partition table and a significant chunk of the beginning of
the file system in a horrible format accident.

I've had that happen to me a few times, and I always knew why. I've
had HFS+ eat its brain badly enough that I had to copy everything to
a new filesystem and format it at least as often as that... over
a tenth as many years and maybe a hundredth as many systems.

There's stuff above here

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