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From: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: CATS - *THANKS* (FFS), also more info on bug in Format, also nd.
Message-ID: <7878@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 12 Sep 89 00:54:11 GMT
References: <8909112131.AA05003@postgres.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <8909112131.AA05003@postgres.Berkeley.EDU> dillon@POSTGRES.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes:
>	It turns out that by specifying enough buffers  (~100 in this case),
>    all the side sectors get cached and the FFS no longer needs to go to disk 
>    to scan them.  So, thanks CATS for not caching data sectors!

or thanks, Stve Beats :-)


>	Bug in format:  Apparently Format reads block 0 of the disk before
>    it does anything.  Apparently if I put 'DOS\1' all through block 0

Actually, bug in the version of the FastFileSystem you have; its
fixed in the WB 1.3.2 distribution.
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