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- Subject: Re: Diff between OS 3 and 3.1?
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- From: worc0223@sable.ox.ac.uk (Benjamin Hutchings)
- Date: 17 Feb 1996 17:28:11 GMT
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- In article <neilo-1702961725490001@d11-1.cpe.maroochydore.aone.net.au>,
- Neil O'Rourke <neilo@m140.aone.net.au> wrote:
- >In article <DMsyvv.9pL@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>,
- >pwm5k@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Patrick William Mackin) wrote:
- [...]
- >> I had to get the install disks and reinstall the OS!
- >>
- >> Stay away from DC-FFS on HDss!!!!!!!!!!
- >
- >I beg to differ here. We have 8 A4000's at work (some of them A4000T's)
- >and all partitions are DC-FFS. The older A4000's, with System 3.0, have
- >been running for over a year with no problems. We have hard disks in
- >these machines ranging from 300Mb IDE's to 4GByte SCSI's.
- >
- >Certainly, something nuked your partition. But don't blame the filesystem.
-
- I suspect that the directory-caching may accentuate problems with incorrect
- MaxTransfer values, so that instead of just data blocks being corrupted, the
- directory structure gets messed up too. This explanation seems to make sense.
- Can anyone cast any light on this subject? I don't know exactly how DC works...
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