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
BG> anyway (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.

BG> Oh sure, I'm not suggesting that HPFS doesn't have
BG> it's own quirks, just that none have bitten me so far,

And I was saying that a particular person saying that a particular
system hasnt bitten them proves SFA about anything much at all.

BG> and with the right utes, repairing a fucked HPFS
BG> partition is no harder than doing the same thing to FAT.

Thats not quite true, the booting off a floppy is a bit of a pain.

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.

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

AND you had ANOTHER occasion on which you were getting the files
fucked. Not just a dud driver, from memory it was flakey hardware.

If HPFS really was a intrinsically robust as its claimed to be, that
stuff shouldnt be happening either. Neither should that obscene fuckup
that Warp did to Pauls partition when he attempted an install on it.

BG> The HPFS GammaTech Utes saved my bacon though.

Sure, but thats also true of FAT drives too.

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

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

Zealotry Bill, anything less than a true believer is an ignorant fool.
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