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Offline koshmanTopic starter

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one more filesystem question...
« on: September 24, 2010, 03:30:34 PM »
As I discussed in a different thread I recently changed all my partitions back to FFS (previously PFS3). Yesterday when I was loading them up with games and stuff under WinUAE I accidentally hit the Power button on my keyboard, which among other things resulted in unclean WinUAE shutdown during copying files from a PC HDD to Amiga CF. After that when trying to resume the process I was surprised by numerous "disk not validated" errors and because I didn't know of any other solution I reformatted the affected partition. Later it happened to me again on a different partition without an obvious cause.

My question is - is it neccessary to reformat the partition when this happens or is there another solution? If it is, is quick format enough? And also is SFS or PFS3 better at handling such issues (some kind of autorecovery?).

I don't care much about the speed of the filesystem right now, but reliability is of the highest priority.
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Re: one more filesystem question...
« Reply #1 on: September 25, 2010, 11:30:45 AM »
Yeah, I totally agree about the buttons, but I haven't seen a cheap keyboard without them lately. These accidental shutdowns happen to me regularly about twice a month and I'm sure next time the keyboard will die a horrible death as my patience runs out...

Regarding the filesystem - I'm currently away from home and won't be able to check for sure till tomorrow, but I fear that I also saw some checksum errors following the shutdown.
As for my previous question - is it possible that a more advanced filesystem (either PFS3 or SFS) would be less affected/able to recover in this kind of situation (power down during writing)? I've been using PFS3 for the past year and this hasn't happened to me during that time (although I can't remember ever having copying inerrupted in this way).
Thanks.
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