In a message to Will Honea, Linda Proulx wrote re: OS/2 Backup Program

WH> still wanting HPFS386, be forewarned that recovery of drives with
WH> HPFS386 installed is very dicey - ranging from a real PITA to
WH> impossible!
 
LP> Is this different from HPFS?

Yes.  It is the server version of HPFS.  The main reasons why 
people want to use it on stand-alone machines are that it removes
the 2MB cache limit of the standard HPFS and it is fully 32-bit 
and runs in processor ring0, so it a little faster (doesn't have 
to make the ring transitions that the standard HPFS does).    

The main problems with HPFS386 are that since it is
server-oriented, it uses "ACL's" (access control lists) to
restrict user accesses.  The stand-alone versions of OS/2 have no
means of dealing with ACL's, and as Will noted above, the
presence of ACL's can cause a great deal of difficulty when you
need to recover files and such.  Finally, use of HPFS386 on a
standard OS/2 installation is not supported by IBM and is
considered to be a license violation.  Use at your own risk.


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