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- Short: Demo of Ami-FileSafe V2.1 (New filing system)
- Uploader: afssales@flevel.demon.co.uk (AFS Sales)
- Type: disk/misc
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- Features of Ami-FileSafe
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- - AFS has much faster disk access than FFS.
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- - AFS will store (On average) more data than FFS on the same disk.
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- - AFS gives vastly improved directory scanning.
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- - AFS is SAFE - If you crash your machine whilst writing Ami-FileSafe
- partitions will not (unlike OFS & FFS) become invalidated
- or corrupt.
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- Ami-FileSafe (AFS) Announcement
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- Since the initial release of Ami-FileSafe there has been a few changes.
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- Ami-FileSafe Pro
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- Ami-FileSafe now becomes Ami-FileSafe Pro. The new version includes:-
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- - A MultiUser FileSystem version of AFS.
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- - An on the fly FFS to AFS converter.
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- Current users of Ami-FileSafe can update to Ami-FileSafe Pro free of charge.
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- The retail price of Ami-FileSafe Pro is 69.75UKP (Inc Vat).
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- Ami-FileSafe User
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- A new version of AFS called Ami-FileSafe User is now available.
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- Ami-FileSafe User is a budget version of AFS and has the follow limitations:-
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- - It may only be used on one hard drive of upto 650MB.
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- - It does not include the MultiUser FileSystem version of AFS.
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- It does however include the FFS to AFS converter.
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- The retail price of Ami-FileSafe User is 29.95UKP (Inc Vat).
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- Upgrades from Ami-FileSafe User to Ami-FileSafe Pro are 44.80UKP (Inc Vat).
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- Restrictions and Requirements
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- The demonstration version of Ami-FileSafe will not handle partitions of
- more than 10MB. It can be installed and automouted in the RidgidBootBlock.
- Standard mountlists are also supported. Autobooting is supported. Memory
- usage depends on the number of buffers selected.
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- Benchmarks
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- Test FFS AFS Units
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- DirScan 409 1780 Files/Second
- Create 227 1073 K/Second
- Read 244 1363 K/Second
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- The DirScan, Create and Read tests were done with DiskSpeed V4.2
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- SeekTest (x100) 53.6 4.4 Seconds
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- SeekTest was done using a custom program (Source code available on request).
- It performs the following sequence:
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- Seek Start of file
- Write 4 Bytes
- Seek to End of file
- Write 4 Bytes
- Repeat
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- Reviews
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- A review of Ami-FileSafe is available from Aminet and
- comp.sys.amiga.reviews. If you would like this review send to you then
- please ask.
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- Contacts
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- If you are having problems with Ami-FileSafe or would like some more
- information then please contact Fourth Level Developments not Amiga
- Shopper.
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- Tel: 0117 985 4455 (6 Lines)
- Fax: 0117 955 9157
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- Email: support@flevel.demon.co.uk
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- Mail: Fourth Level Developments
- 31, Ashley Hill
- Montpelier
- Bristol
- BS6 5JA
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