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- From: flex@kuai.se (Anders Karlsson)
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- Subject: Iomega ZIP drive and AFS
- Date: 16 Mar 1996 14:50:51
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- In a message of 15 Mar 96 Mark Marin wrote to :
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- MM> What I am dying to know, how much faster is it with AFS? I am thinking
- MM> about getting it, but don't know what speed increase I will get on my
- MM> SCSI II drive (which is fast as it is). Also, can you set up your boot
- MM> drive with AFS? If it's not already booted, how can it read the drivers
- MM> or whatever off the boot partition? Can you use it for floppies too?
- MM> How fast are they? Can an AFS partition be used for Emplant Mac
- MM> partitions (Pseudo Mac drive from FFS is how most of us set it up).
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- 1. The average speed increase is 2-3 times FFS.
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- From the AFS manual...
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- High Performance:
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- read and write operations: faster by a factor of 2
- directory scans: 10-20 times FFS, 3 times FFS-DC
- delete/rename/protect etc: 10-20 times faster
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- 2. You can boot of an AFS partition IF your controller supports C= RDB.
- You have to install the AFS device in the RDB and then off you go.
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- Anders Karlsson Dedicated Amiga User.
- flex@kuai.se PGP-key available on request.
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