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- From: courtn@hercules.cs.uregina.ca (todd courtnage)
- Subject: Re: IS XPK SAFE?
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- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.181241.870485@sue.cc.uregina.ca>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 18:12:41 GMT
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- Organization: University of Regina, SK, Canada
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- In article <Bxnwv6.At@javelin.sim.es.com> dingebre@imp.sim.es.com (David Ingebretsen) writes:
- >
- >I'm very impressed with the XPK package and the XFH and XPK-handler
- >file systems. BUT how reliable are they?
- >
- >If you use/have used either of these, I would appreciate you thoughts.
- >
- >1. Have you ever lost data?
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- No.
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- >2. Was it obnoxious in any way?
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- No.
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- >3. Would you do it differently if given another chance?
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- I'd like to see an option to allow certain directories to NOT be compressed.
- That way, you could set up an XFH to handle dh0:, but tell it not to do
- anything with directories like libs: devs: s:, etc.
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- >4. Which handler would you recommend?
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- Huh? Do you mean which compression? I'd suggest nuke.
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- >5. Do you back up your data in the compressed format?
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- Yes, with the nuke compression.
- >
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