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- Path: grafix.xs4all.nl!john.hendrikx
- Date: Sun, 18 Feb 96 20:10:24 GMT+1
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- Subject: Re: Diff between OS 3 and 3.1?
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- From: john.hendrikx@grafix.xs4all.nl (John Hendrikx)
- Message-ID: <john.hendrikx.4gcs@grafix.xs4all.nl>
- Organization: Grafix Attack BBS Holland
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- In a message of 17 Feb 96 N4010554 wrote to All:
-
- N> I agree also, DC FFS is on the whole a very good file system to use for
- N> your HD. It gives fast directory access and it is much more reliable than
- N> OFS.
-
- Where did you get that idea? OFS is still the most reliable of the standard
- Amiga filesystems, it is slower but that's the price you pay.
-
- I've found DC FFS to be quite unreliable, I used it on my download partition a
- few months (which was usually quite full) and every now and then something
- strange would happen. When I went to fix the errors with a program it usually
- fixed the problem, but usually also pointed out some additional problems (like
- inconsistencies between the dircache blocks and the real dir blocks). This
- seems to be fixed in OS 3.1 though, but I'm still using OS 3.0.
-
- N> However, I would recommend investing in AFS, it gives super quick
- N> access, deleting, and writing. It also gives you an exta directory on
- N> your partition called ".deldir", going in there shows the last thirty
- N> files which you have deleted so you can then get back any accidently
- N> erased files. Also, AFS never gives a validation error, even when
- N> resetting when the HD is writing.
-
- Just because it never gives a validation error doesn't mean that it can't get
- invalid.
-
- Grtz John
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