Re: AFFS fixes v1

From: Rask Ingemann Lambertsen (rask-linux@kampsax.k-net.dk)
Date: Sun Apr 02 2000 - 15:27:54 EST


Den 31-Mar-00 04:23:46 skrev Matthias Andree fĝlgende om "Re: AFFS fixes v1":
> Nicholai Benalal <nicholai@chello.se> writes:

>> AFFS works allright under AmigaOS.

> Prove that. It blows itself off its very feet when crashing at the wrong
> time and leaving a system behind that's corrupted beyond repair. This is
> happening all over the place every now and then.

   AFFS is as good (or bad) as ext2 in this regard. Hopefully Reiserfs will
save Linux users from such trouble the same way PFS/AFS/SFS has for Amiga
users.

>> It has limitations but generally it's ok. Still, a lot of people use
>> other filesystems for AmigaOS but there are no Linux drivers for
>> these.

> Might be to the commercial or closed-source nature of most of them.

   More likely due to lack of time. The on-disk format of SFS is fully
documented, AFAIK.

Regards,

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