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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: "AFS" Ami-File Safe
- From: bmaple@burner.com (Bob Maple)
- Message-ID: <bmaple.jeji@burner.com>
- Date: Thu, 14 Mar 96 01:23:14 MST
- Organization: The Back Burner BBS
-
- On Mon 11-Mar-1996 3:45a, David Evans wrote:
-
- DE> writing lots of SMALL files can be slower". It appears to be a know bug
- DE> which they claim to have addressed. I am now told that I can try their
- DE> "beta" software (which has killed many a hard-drive) or pay them some more
- DE> $$ and get a version which MIGHT be useable.
-
- In all fairness, a correction: The new version coming out soon (a few weeks
- hopefully) will include the small block read/write optimizations as well as a
- few other enhancements and is _free_ to 2.2 owners. It's the next version
- after _that_ which will have god knows what other bells and whistles that will
- cost money to upgrade to.
-
- DE> Another problem which has been ignored by
- DE> AFS, is it can't support LOTS of files. I have a partition which had MOST
- DE> of Aminet on it. When trying to copy it onto my "newly formatted" AFS
- DE> drive (2 gig partition), I ran out of disk space after only filling it 5%
-
- 5%?!
-
- : Bob Maple : In the beginning, the Universe was created. :
- : bmaple@burner.com : This has made a lot of people very angry and :
- : http://rmii.com/~bobm : been widely regarded as a bad move. .........:
-