On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 03:34:35AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > reason is that it would be really, really nice to have a large volume > > on my iBook (already created :) that I can share between Mac OS 9, Mac > > OS 10, and Linux, simply as a working area. I can get either the first > > two easily, or the last two if I accept experimental drivers.. but not > > all three. > > the old HFS will do this for you, though linux will corrupt it > regularly, and ive read OSX doesn't deal well with HFS in the gui, so > you would have to do all file managment in the shell. >
Ethan, do you have any specific information on when/how HFS was corrupted? What kernel versions? I've heard about this problem for a while, but I haven't seen anything that talked about what specific operations were performed to create the corruption.