#2.1FileSys
Phillip;
>tired in the dark
Yea, we ALL have experience with those sorts of times.
>put the fastfilesystem on the drive if you needed to boot up in 1.3.
That could well be a disaster. You really should never attempt to access an HD
with a filesystem of an older version than was used to 'create' the disk (or
even write to the disk). To some extent, you will probably 'get away with it'
but if you try using the 1.3 stuff to access a version 38 or later drive the
sparks will fly.
The reason that the filesystem SHOULD be in the RDB is that the boot code
checks the RDB filesystem version and the ROM filesystem version and then uses
whichever is newer.
If you don't put a filesystem in the RDB, you may of course still be fine —
until you do something like move the drive to an older machine.
-bill