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- From: ajackson@alladin.demon.co.uk (Action Jackson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: DCFS vs FFS on HARDRIVE
- Date: Tue, 06 Feb 1996 16:02:06 GMT
- Message-ID: <823622701.20056@alladin.demon.co.uk>
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- m.hendry@dial.pipex.com (Mathew Hendry) wrote:
-
- >Colin Palmer (cpalmer@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz) wrote:
- >: In article <4et4l6$6kt@bambam.soi.city.ac.uk>,
- >: Olatunbosun S <be584@city.ac.uk> wrote:
- >: > >It's not worth it with a HD.
- >: > Could you please explain why. Your response wasn't very informative.
- >:
- >: DC-FFS is safe, and does speed up directory manipulation, however since
- >: most harddisks are quite fast, the overall speed increase isn't worth the
- >: effort required to back-up, reformat your harddisk.
- >:
- >: 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.
-
- >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.
-
- >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... ;)
-
- Problems?!@ What problems? I have been using DCFS since May 1994 and
- not yet had any problems. I use KS 3.0 & WB 3.1...
-
- And yes the extra speed if worth it because its not just for FOnts but
- for any file requester...You dont have to wait for the file requester
- to display the files...
-
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