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- From: olli@enea.se (Ola Liljedahl)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Validation and Delete
- Date: 7 Feb 1996 13:25:27 +0100
- Organization: Enea OSE Systems; "OSE - Design on a higher level"
- Message-ID: <4fa5nn$k5h@gordon.enea.se>
- References: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960203013050.9886A-100000@alpha.lehman.cuny.edu> <19960203.444DE0.C399@ao094.du.pipex.com> <oj6ka202q20.fsf@hpsrk.fc.hp.com>
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- Keywords: DiskSalv, stack size
-
- koren@hpsrk.fc.hp.com (Steve Koren) wrote:
- > m.hendry@dial.pipex.com (Mathew Hendry) wrote:
- >
- >> Use DiskSalv:
- >> DiskSalv11_32.lha disk/salv 118K 29+Dave Haynie's DiskSalv version 11.32
- >
- > I tried this once, some time ago, on a partition with minimal damage (my
- > system rebooted during a file write, so I think the damage must have
- > been localized to that one file & dir). And indeed DiskSalv reported
- > only one error, as I expected.
- >
- > DiskSalv nominally "restored" the drive, but in the process hopelessly
- > damaged the rest of the filesystem layout. It completely deleted my C
- > directory, and screwed up a *bunch* of other stuff not related to the
- > problem file. I ended up just restoring from a backup. (Luckily, you
- > can still read a non-validated partition, so making an up-to-the-minute
- > backup isn't a problem).
- >
- > If it had worked OK, I would have registered it, but I couldn't really
- > justify it since my drive was worse off after I ran it. Since, whenever
- > I have a non-validatable partition I just restore it from a backup,
- > which is actually much faster for me than running DiskSalv anyway.
-
- Let me quote from a mail I received from Dave Haynie regarding DiskSalv:
- "I hate static stacks, that's one area of the Amiga that should have been dealt
- with long ago. From what I can tell, at least 50%-75% of the problems folks
- have with DiskSalv is based on running it on large disks with only a little bit
- of stack allocated. I'm trying to do my own dynamic stack for a future version,
- but it's a real pain to manage."
-
- I myself had some problems when running DiskSalv with a too small stack. Some
- restored files had their contents trashed but I didn't notice that until later.
-
- This might be the source of your problem with DiskSalv.
-
- So a word of wisdom from the author of DiskSalv, be generous with your stack
- size.
-
- Ola Liljedahl
- olli@enea.se
- "OSE - Design on a higher level"
-