Xref: utzoo comp.sys.amiga:75769 comp.sys.amiga.tech:17437 Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: HD Errors Message-ID: <7455@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 4 Jan 91 13:47:20 GMT References: <37492@cup.portal.com> <1991Jan2.190655.15790@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> <1991Jan3.141624.25450@forwiss.uni-passau.de> <1991Jan3.230319.3648@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> Reply-To: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston Lines: 28 In article <1991Jan3.230319.3648@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> jdickson@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Jeff Dickson) writes: > I've heard that C= plans to limit the possibility of corrupting a > file system even more in Ver 2.0. Something about updating the disk so as to > keep little of it's static state in RAM. After C= implements this, the Amiga's > file system will probably fall into this realm you see all other file > systems in. That's not good enough... it's still susceptibale to bad blocks, etc. I used to gripe about the Amiga file system, and everyone kept telling me there must be something wrong with my drives (so I had 'em serviced, no dice), or that it's just trackdisk.device (so? They wrote that too), or whatever. But things would be better on the hard disk. So I shut up and waited. Now I have a hard disk and I've already had to format a partition because something in It's Only Rock and Roll (which is just *data!*) busted it... twice. I've got some 40 UNIX boxes with on the order of 1 Gig of disk on each at work. I've never had to format a partition because of a software problem. The Amiga needs a working FSCK. You can keep less stuff in RAM and reduce the window in which a bug can bite you quite a bit... at the cost of performance. But you can still get bitten. No, the Amiga needs a file system repair utility that can be trusted, and that doesn't force me to keep a spare partition to salvage the disk structure into. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' .