LEE ARONER wrote in a message to MIKE BILOW:
 LA>    Hmm. Methinks I will try running DOS Norton on the FAT 
 LA> partition.     (From DOS 7.0).  See what it turns up.
Whatever you do, DON'T defrag an OS/2 FAT partition.  You can blow away EAs.  
the "EA DATA. SF" pseudo-file is deliberately fragmented to keeps EAs near 
the files to which they are associated.
 LA>    Actually, I haven't installed any fixpacks yet. Waiting for 
 LA> some cables to get the DAT drive running on this server before 
 LA> I do that. I've been reserving judgment until that happens...
HPFS under Warp 3 is not stable until at least FixPak 5.
 LA>    I'll try it. I'm running a Symbios 810 chip with only the 
 LA> built-in (Warp & NT) drivers, so I'll only install DOS drivers 
 LA> if the Warp method does not come up. Will have to wait till I 
 LA> get a backup of that drive, probably next week.
This seems like a logical way to proceed.
 LA>    If only the NTFS journaling actually worked! I've heard 
 LA> several horror stories of lost data.
NTFS had blown up the system registry a few times, but I don't really have 
enough NTFS experience to form an opinion.
 LA>    Do you have any info on the forthcoming IBM journaled 
 LA> system? 
No, but IBM has a good track record in this area, and they invented most of 
the standard techniques for doing this in a mainframe context.
 
-- Mike
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