Okay folks I said this about a hundred times but I am going to say it again.
WARNING!! A total blown head gasket rant is about to commence all those who don't want to hear a raving RANT please leave the room now. You have been warned.
That was a totally an unnecessary error. It did not have to happen.
PFS/AFS has been around for over a decade. SFS is available for free on the internet USE one of THEM!!!!!
I can pull power while copying a partition with absolutely no fear. I never ever have a invalidated partition.
What you say are those programs? Simple a FFS replacement that are fast compatible and more importantly you never ever get an invalidated disk. Short of a hardware failure you data is safe and secure.
Besides being many times faster than FFS. They offer protection from invalidated disk because they use what is called an atomic filesystem there is always a valid disk structure it goes from valid structure to valid structure there is never a half way point like FFS.
Unless you like invalidated disks and the tedium to fix them there is no reason not to have one of these programs installed on your hard drive besides sheer stupidity!!!!
If you don't want PFS on all of your partitons you don't have to install it on all partitions only on the partitions you want to protect.
You can even mix them all on a single hard drive if you like.
Good points about these systems.
No invalidated hard drives and lost data
many times faster than FFS
PFS3 has no limits on the size of the Hard drive
SFS has a three Tetrabytes size limit
Both have a single partition limit in the 104 Gigabyte range.
Full Amigados Compatibility.
Downside only problems I have ever encountered using these programs is with the GVP crap.
GVP does not read the RDB properly and will not see these partitions. ARGG! but install these on the RDB say on a IDE drive not hooked to your GVP bingo now the GVP can read and write these partitions fine .
Why GVP still can't make stuff that follow a simple standard laid out by Commodore 16 years ago is mind boggling. You should also note that since it is not reading the RDB any updates to FFS installed on the RDB are also not being read properly.
Why anybody is still using FFS is beyond me. Most probaly because they haven't heard of the above programs but after learning about them and still using FFS is sheer lunacy.
BTW SFS support is built into AOS4.0
RANT over feeling better now
Kurt
links for SFS and PFS
http://www.xs4all.nl/~hjohn/SFShttp://on.to/greed
