Rod, at 11:12 on May 23 1996, you wrote to Bill Grimsley...

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

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

Oh sure, I'm not suggesting that HPFS doesn't have it's own quirks, just
that none have bitten me so far, and with the right utes, repairing a
fucked HPFS partition is no harder than doing the same thing to FAT.

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.

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

True, but that wasn't down to HPFS per se.  If you remember, it turned out
to be a dodgy replacement EIDE driver for IBM1S506.ADD, and it was trashing
my files occasionally.  The HPFS GammaTech Utes saved my bacon though.

RS> Has anyone ever suggested to you that you are a natural born zealot ? |-)

Yeah, you have, but I learned to ignore narrow-minded opinions long ago.

Regards, Bill
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