While reading the thread about "HFS Plus on Linux ?" I had a experience I want to share with you.
Within a an hour I had to hard reset both of my computers, first my Linux-i386 due to a complete lockup of the system while using el3diag, second my powermac due to an not responding USB-keyboard/-mouse. Now while the Mac restarted without any fuse I had to fix the ext2-fs manually for about 15min. Luckally it seems I haven't lost anything on both system. I leave it up to you to draw any conclusion. O. Wyss