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- From: m.hendry@dial.pipex.com (Mathew Hendry)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: DCFS vs FFS on HARDRIVE
- Date: Fri, 9 Feb 96 14:49:15
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- Thomas Tavoly (aTmosh@amiga.ow.nl) wrote:
- : In article <19960206.4EBF38.12B96@an086.du.pipex.com> m.hendry@dial.pipex.com (Mathew Hendry) writes:
- : >
- : > 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.
- :
- : I've had no problems with either 3.0 or 3.1, KS/WB/FS (I have 40.1 in the
- : RDB now). I use DCFFS on all partitions with links and all kinds of other
- : stuff. It might just be your particular hard-drive. I have used a 248 MB
- : Seagate, a 519 MB Seagate and a 1032 MB Western Digital Caviar. (All IDE).
- : No problems whatsoever, and I run some very intensive stuff (UUCP,
- : thousands of reads/writes a day).
- :
- : And an IDE CD-ROM player. Never had that one invalidated ;)
-
- Now tell me, why should DCFFS' stability be hardware dependent? It is nearly
- identical to FFS, except that it writes a few extra blocks to store the
- directory cache. Nothing there which should be influenced _at all_ by hardware
- configuration.
-
- And I have heard of the instability of this filesystem from many different
- people using many different setups (A3000 SCSI, A4000 IDE, A500 SCSI (myself)
- etc. etc.).
-
- For this reason, I would not say that I have been unlucky with it; I would say
- that you have been lucky.
-
- -- Mat.
-