>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.
I can't tell for corruption (well, I did _once_ have a file written from linux appearing corrupted on macos), but I know HFS has some nasty locking bugs. At least on SMP kernels, it can easily lockup the box. One problem with writing filesystems for linux is that the locking rules and the underlying cache semantics keep changing. Ben.