#WB 1.3-When??
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Does anyone know when worbench 1.3 will be available??
Nope, noone. Even at CBM. –Ben–
Jab, poke, gouge, nudge, tweek. hehehe Ted
I've heard rumors that the FFS has a serious bug that requires a major
rewrite. Something about HD crashes that involve several partitions.
According to the gossip on the local boards, the rewrite will slow the FFS
down considerably. Given that 1.4 is following so close on the heels of 1.3,
my unreliable source claims that 1.3 may never be released. Anybody out
there have any SOLID info on this?
Hmmmm. Well, I'm using FFS in a system with two big hard drives… one has
two partitions, one has three. All partitions are FFS. The bigger drive has 3
40mb partitions, and the smaller HD has 2 35mb partitions. No problems at
all, except those caused by broken software, like WordPerfect… and of
course, once you figure out _why_ such programs are trashing you, you stop
using those features. For that matter, if they don't fix it before I finish
this project, I'll probably format the WP disks – that's prefererable to
formatting the HD even once. Anyway, I have had no system problems with FFS,
and I've been running it since about the initial Gamma 4 release. I'm using
Gamma 7 now, and will stay with it until (or should I say IF) 1.3 is actually
released. From my point of view, there are no major problems, or even any
minor ones that I've run into. –Ben–
Like I said, the rumors of problems with FFS were from questionable
sources. I would hope that they are exagerated. I have been waiting with
growing impatience for WB 1.3, even though the important (to me) improvements
aren't expected until 1.4.
There are acknowledged bugs in the FFS Gammas which have been fixed in the
Omega releases. Beware anything that does multiple quick directory updates
without flushing through a bunch of data blocks in between, if you're still
using the Gammas.
So far, I have not seen any problems at all. Perhaps someday 1.3 will be
released. Maybe. And I won't have to worry about it anymore. –Ben–