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- From: Mike@Redrobe.demon.co.uk (Mike)
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- Subject: Re: AFS
- Date: 28 Mar 96 11:00:40 +0000
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- Hi, Udo K Schuermann , on 26-Mar-96 23:48:28 you scribbled....
- >In article <4j9n1u$h62@marton.hsr.no>, Morten Leikvoll <leikvoll@hsr.no>
- >wrote:
- >>Tarjei Knapstad (tarjeik@stud.unit.no) wrote:
- >>: Anyone here have any experience regarding the AFS file system???
- >>I hear that it f*cks up you harddisk in no time....
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- >without flaws. Nothing is bug-free, of course, but AFS is very stable for
- >me. I've been running it for months. I've got it installed on *all* my
- >partitions (ranging in size from 200MB to 1.5GB.) It flies. I'm happy.
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- >Note: I used to have a problem with corrupted files, but that was because I
- >had a marginal SCSI bus termination problem that is now fixed.
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- AFS seems to be more sensitive to "bad" settings
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- FFS may have worked on bad maxtransfer,dmamask or scsi terminations, whereas
- AFS needs "correct" settings..
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- Having said that, for me AFS has never faltered and zips along.
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- Mike
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