----- Original Message -----
From: "Cameron Kaiser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "PCI PowerMacs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 8:51 PM
Subject: Re: HFS or HFS+
> > You should have your drives formatted to HFS+ for any OS 8.1 or above,
as
> > long as those drives don't have to be accessed by a machine running any
OS
> > before 8.1 (they can't see files on HFS+ format drives). Just a cryptic
> > readme that tells you were all of your data has gone to. An alternative
to
> > reformatting (but not backing up!) is PlusMaker by Alsoft. Not a free
> > solution, but pretty easy. Check it out here:
> >
> > http://www.alsoft.com/PlusMaker/index.html
> >
> > No affiliation to Alsoft, just a happy user of this product.
>
> My main interest is how much of a speed increase people have observed
> going from HFS to HFS+. I'm willing to lose the backwards compatibility
> if I can get a faster boot-up.
When I switched from HFS to HFS+, I didn't notice much of a speedup. The
main point of HFS+ is smaller allocation blocks, much like FAT32 did for
FAT16 in the Windows world. In other words, if you have lots of small files
on your drive, you'll end up with more free space. This alone is worth it to
me, though I only use two PowerMacs usually, and only one has an HD big
enough to benefit. 68k machines running 8.1 can read HFS+ disks, but not
boot from them.
Scott Holder
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