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#Ami-FileSafe

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#214948From: Tom JonesOct 10, 1995 9:40 PM
Dale I would welcome a safer file system than ffs, personally. With FFS I can just about generate a disabling hangup with the scsi activity light on by executing any one of a number of programs with bugs in them, and guarantee that when I boot I will have to power off the computer to get back on. Which is tantamont to a guarantee the partition is invalid and may need to be restored or a long wait for Disksalve to run. On my Message database it may be hours of waiting. How does AFS perform with program crashes and power outages? Tom alternate: jonest@amigat.com I never met a man I didn't like…Will Rogers
#214998From: Dale LarsonOct 11, 1995 9:59 AM
> ith FFS I can just about generate a disabling hangup with the scsi > activity light Then you have a hardware problem or a driver problem. A different filesystem would not likely affect it. Regarding validation, though, see the published reviews that have come out in the Sept/Oct UK mags. They tried rebooting, powering down and disconnecting SCSI cables during writes. They couldn't invalidate the drive or cause any corruption or loss (other than loss of the file being written at the time). Dale L. Larson, dale@iam.com el Presidente, IAM http://www.iam.com
#215201From: Ferrin JuanOct 13, 1995 7:11 AM
Hi Tom, PFMJI, I use AFS for 4 weeks now, and i am verry happy with it. When programs crashes or there occure power outages, while you was writing to an AFS partition nothing bad happens, the partition allways remains validated, of course the file you was writing at the moment of the crash will be lost, but…. there is somthing very interesting with AFS, it allways 'remember' the last 30 deleted or overwrited files in a special directory ":DELDIR" so you can reuse the latest non corrupt version of a file. This is because AFS never overwrite files on their fisical location, it creates a new file in a different fisical location on your HD and teh old one comes then in the ":.DELDIR"…. Interesting or not…??? DONT wait any longer GET AmiFileSafe !!! Regards, Juan Ferrin From Belgium with Autopilot
#215226From: Rafael VicariaOct 13, 1995 12:02 PM
Juan >there is something very interesting with AFS, it always 'remember' the last 30 deleted or overwrited files in a special directory ":DELDIR" so you can reuse the latest non corrupt version of a file.< Interesting? INTERESANTISIMO!!! Muchisimas gracias por la info! Me gusta!! Un fuerte abrazo Rafa <Motorola Inside> from Berlin, thanks to AP1.80 >…olive oil is the way to go.<
#215513From: Ferrin JuanOct 16, 1995 5:28 PM
Your welcome pal ! Salu2 Juan Ferrin From Belgium with Autopilot