In a message to All <06 Jan 93 19:57> Timothy F. Sipples wrote:
TF> What you have discovered is a minor bit of fault tolerance found in
TF> HPFS under OS/2. It is called hot fix. During format HPFS sets aside
TF> Clever, isn't it?
TF> It's amazing that OS/2 takes it so casually, but that's what HPFS buys
TF> you -- added security.
Granted, it is great not to have to restore defective files, e.g. from originals somewhere on floppies. The problem is that immediately after executing the "hot fix" the whole system hangs losing all work in progress in any windows that happen to be open, and sometimes even requires a floppy boot to fix the c: [system volume] disk even though the error message put up before the system went down referred to a defective sector on the d: [applications volume] disk. [all one physical disk however.] Still, I wi
