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- From: devans@ccubb.com (David Evans)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: "AFS" Ami-File Safe
- Date: Mon, 11 Mar 96 03:45:02
- Organization: Sysop of CCUBB.COM
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <19960311.7C0D950.3537@ccubb.com>
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- On Fri 8-Mar-1996 4:19a, wtamm wrote:
- w> This past Christmas I purchased Fourth Level Developments' Ami-FileSafe
- w> Professional Version from a local Scarborough (suburb of Toronto, Ontario,
- w> Canada) Amiga dealer, who has since gone under (Wonder Computers).
-
- I also wish to support my local computer dealers. In the hope of supporting a
- "remainging" vendor, I also purchased AFS 15.9. (Professional version)
-
- w> Anyone with first-hand, second-hand, fifth-hand, whatever experience
- w> and//or comments on the AFS; could you please tell me about your
- w> experiences? I'm
-
- So far, my experiences haven't been very positive. I bought the critter
- before last Christmas. I installed it on my system. (Stock A4000/040 with
- 3gigs of storage and 18 megs of ram) As I run a 24hr bbs both on and off the
- net, anything that might increase performance was a "godsend". I bought AFS
- in the hope of improving the "hashing" FFS demonstrated when dealing with
- directories with file number > 500 files per directory.
-
- My Stock A4000 which would allow me to have up to 8 users online the same time
- (running about 200 tasks) under FFS ran resonably well. The CPU usage wasn't
- quite maxed out and response time to users was excellent. Under AFS, my
- system useage was continually 100% and if more then 3 users where online, the
- system became UNUSEABLE.
-
- Now in fairness to AFS, they claim that "due to the design of our filesystem,
- writing lots of SMALL files can be slower". It appears to be a know bug which
- they claim to have addressed. I am now told that I can try their "beta"
- software (which has killed many a hard-drive) or pay them some more $$ and get
- a version which MIGHT be useable. Another problem which has been ignored by
- AFS, is it can't support LOTS of files. I have a partition which had MOST of
- Aminet on it. When trying to copy it onto my "newly formatted" AFS drive (2
- gig partition), I ran out of disk space after only filling it 5% full.
-
- w> really eager to try out this technically good sounding file system, but
- w> over many years of Amiga ownership QuarterbackTools v1.5, QuarterbackTools
- w> Deluxe and not to forget, Ami-Back Tools have saved my life on my standard
- w> os1.3, then 2.0, then 2.1 and now 3.1 FFS systems many, many times.
-
- Yes, I to have enjoyed those programs. I personally prefer the AmiBack
- versions over the Quarterback. I have had little success with Quarterback on
- large partitions (over 1 gig in size). Amiback however works flawlessly.
-
- w> system, most intuitive platform on the market. Am I being too cowardly;
- w> or am I reading between the lines in messages I've received?
-
- No, I would say you aren't. While I hate to admit it, AFS isn't a piece of
- software that I would reccomend to friends UNLESS they are running on a
- accellerated Amiga. The success stories of AFS appear to be on systems with
- CPU's running > 25mhz. (A local sysop has it running on a 50mhz)
-