db> HPFS was designed from the ground up to be robust - despite what
db> problems people may have, it's a pretty damn clever piece of work.

BG> And it's been around long enough to have most of its bugs ironed out by
BG> now anyway (which is presumably why I've never had a single problem with it

Plenty can say that about FAT drives too. Doesnt prove much.

db> Throughout OS/2 2.1 and 3.0, I've had system crashes (hardware
db> reset style) that have never lost a thing on any HPFS partition.

BG> Same here.  If the auto chkdsk finds problems here, it has always been
BG> able to fix them on its own, and I've lost nothing either.  Not once.

This is being rather economical with the truth. You have in fact had
quite a number of times where you had entire files disappear etc.

Has anyone ever suggested to you that you are a natural born zealot ? |-)
@EOT:

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