on Thu, 23 Oct 2008
12:03:33 -0700
> > I spend so much time in Win that I finally got W2K
> > to R/W HPFS.
> > I am now more willing to accept eCS requiring HPFS because
> > I can align
> > drive letters between the two and they can access each
> > other.
>
> This is fine, until the overly aggressive Win CHKDSK decides it needs to "fix" your HPFS partition(s).
>
> > I also seem to have EXT2 working for OS/2 and Win storage. And it
> > seems to be
> > less fragile - better able to survive a hard crash - than
> > JFS which is
> > even more fragile than HPFS. HPFS will sometimes become
> > unaccessible,
> > JFS always will.
> >
> > YMMV
> >
> > Ray
>
> I'm wondering how many others replicate your mileage with JFS . . . because I'm
> still thinking of trying it, but only thinking about it. OO 2.x for our
> platform seems to require it, as a practical matter. That's the one place
> where I can envision a clear need. HPFS has not been fragile here. Can't
> recall a situation where it has failed, absent some much more serious and
> widespread issue involving all or most of the HDD.
I have not had any problems with either HPFS or JFS (I have used each since
they were first in OS/2, which for HPFS is many years). If you don't have a
normal shutdown (like a power failure) JFS comes up much faster than HPFS but
from my experience the file systems work well.
Ray likes to fiddle with his system, it would not surprise me if he had modules
from different system releases. The other thing is his hard drives (or memory)
may be flaky and in need of replacement.
--
Robert Blair
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