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- From: m.hendry@dial.pipex.com (Mathew Hendry)
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- Subject: Re: DCFS vs FFS on HARDRIVE
- Date: Tue, 6 Feb 96 20:29:59
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- Action Jackson (ajackson@alladin.demon.co.uk) wrote:
- : m.hendry@dial.pipex.com (Mathew Hendry) wrote:
- :
- : >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.
-
- : 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...
-
- See above. I'm guessing you still have a 3.0 version of FastFileSystem stored
- in your RDB. Some of the 3.1 versions, certainly the one I have (40.1), are
- very unstable.
-
- : 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...
-
- The time delay is minimal, particularly with a disk cache, unless you're using
- absolutely huge directories. I'd much rather have slightly sluggish directory
- scans than have other disk operations such as read/writes on hundreds of files
- bogged down by having to store directory entries _twice_ - try running a tool
- such as diskspeed on the same partition formatted with FFS and then with DCFFS
- and you will notice a substantial slowdown for many operations.
-
- The speed issues are partly a matter for personal taste, however. Obviously,
- with your applications, DCFFS works fine.
-
- -- Mat.
-