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- From: cpalmer@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz (Colin Palmer)
- Subject: Re: DCFS vs FFS on HARDRIVE
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- Organization: Actrix - Internet Services
- Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 11:07:09 GMT
- References: <4elrc4$erl@ohnasn01.sinet.slb.com> <4et4l6$6kt@bambam.soi.city.ac.uk> <DM96GF.D9u@actrix.gen.nz> <19960204.536810.F900@ak180.du.pipex.com>
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- In article <19960204.536810.F900@ak180.du.pipex.com>,
- Mathew Hendry <m.hendry@dial.pipex.com> wrote:
- > Colin Palmer (cpalmer@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz) wrote:
- > : OTOH, if you trust ReOrg, you can use that to change the filesystem, in
- > : which case there is no reason not to try it out.
- > Other than the fact that when I tried this, DCFFS proved to be very unstable,
- > with frequent crashes under heavy hard disk usage and accompanying
- > invalidation problems. Furthermore, ReOrg crashed every time I tried to reset
- > the hard disk to FFS - I was forced to go the backup, reformat, restore route.
- > Grrr.
-
- Because ReOrg warns you to back up any important data first, I wouldn't
- trust it with any important data, that advice is for curious peple who
- are willing to take a few risks.
-
- > DCFFS is _not_ safe - it has serious bugs in many OS versions. I think it is
- > reasonably safe under 3.0, but badly broken under 3.1, which is what I (and a
- > lot of other people) use.
-
- What version of l:fastfilesystem are you using. I used the KS 3.0
- version for a while with no major problems, then upgraded to version 40.4
- which I assumed was the KS3.1 version, it's more stable than the older
- version, although I have had it trash a couple of directories, for no
- apparent reason (you get files which show up in the directory, but cannot
- be accessed or even deleted).
-
- > Now, if you're prepared to put up with this risk just for faster directory
- > scans (noting that the directory cache actually _slows down_ just about any
- > other disk operation), go ahead. I don't think it's worth it (in retrospect,
- > of course - I did think it was worth it in the first place... ;)
-
- I've been using DC-FFS since I installed my current harddisk, I've since
- decided that it's not worth using, but don't feel like expending the
- effort required to change it back (even if ReOrg is going to work, I'd
- still need to make backups.
-
-
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