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Offline wawrzon

Re: SFS problem
« on: December 08, 2010, 10:16:31 PM »
my understanding is that big drives may wery well be full formatted but it isnt necessary because it takes time as quick format is enough. anyway i dont think it causes trouble. not from my experience. what i wonder about is why is everybody asking for trouble using sfs. sigh.
 

Offline wawrzon

Re: SFS problem
« Reply #1 on: December 09, 2010, 08:49:52 AM »
sfs has long time reliability problems, at least from my and some other people experience. with data loss in perspective. i would advise to stay with ffs or to get pfs3. its been told it has been released to the public. it also has been supplied on cd with amiga future no 85. although the update there doesnt function out of the box and its difficult to tell how oficial this release is.
 

Offline wawrzon

Re: SFS problem
« Reply #2 on: December 09, 2010, 06:31:04 PM »
@mechy: best partial solution is a file system that doesnt get corrupted to soon, and that isnt sfs in my book. i have to evaluate pfs, but the original ffs was trusty too in its time, validation aside.

as for sfs since there are so many variants, original, strohmayers 68k and os4, mos etc its quite difficult to determine which fails and which not. misunderstandings are certain.
 

Offline wawrzon

Re: SFS problem
« Reply #3 on: December 09, 2010, 09:57:43 PM »
@mechy: this is what your personal experience is, while mine is different. they are both of equal value. whereever i discussed the matter with people that claimed sfs to be perfect, they mostly turned out to be mos users, as if it was selfexplanatory. thats why i ask.

now, a test case proves something till it fails. in your case it havnt yet, in my - multiple times. take into account it is not enough to use your system 24/7, and stick different expansions into it to prove this point. my rack remains pretty unchanged all the time. writing and reading the drives a lot may trigger the bug more likely. note that i dont want to opress anybody not to use sfs, just to warn to use a filesystem that seems more secure atm.
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Offline wawrzon

Re: SFS problem
« Reply #4 on: December 09, 2010, 11:21:47 PM »
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well i would think setting it up on 40+ assorted amigas over a 15+ year time frame is a pretty good test

same as me at least, but in fact you must refer to other filesystems. strohmayers sfs is not that old. so it broke on me sooner. with the original ive had no intercourse.
 

Offline wawrzon

Re: SFS problem
« Reply #5 on: December 10, 2010, 03:10:05 AM »
a stupid question: you have not forgotten to update you rdbs accordingly, have you? (now that i recall what i hate about a filesystem in rdb most)