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From: dick@cbmnlux.cbm.nl (dick)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga
Subject: Re: UFS file systems
Message-ID: <865@cbmnlux.cbm.nl>
Date: 20 Jun 91 14:40:32 GMT
References: <1308@creatures.cs.vt.edu> <1952ff8c.ARN1022@cbmami.UUCP>
Reply-To: dick@cbmnlux.cbm.nl (dick)
Organization: Commodore Nederland B.V. Unix Support Center
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In article <1952ff8c.ARN1022@cbmami.UUCP> jason@cbmami.UUCP writes:
>In article <1308@creatures.cs.vt.edu>, alanlb@csgrad.cs.vt.edu writes:
>
>> Hi there!  Sometime ago I caught the tail end of a discussion wherein
>> someone mentioned that UFS file systems on v1.1 shouldn't be used and
>> that users ought to wait until v2.0 comes out.  I'd appreciate it if
>> someone would e-mail me the reasons for this.  I'm currently migrating
>> several file systems from A/UX and I need the UFS long filenames.
>> 
>Ditto.  I am using a A3000UX as a file server for an AmigaDos network, and
>the filename length restriction makes installing many Commercial software
>packages a real pain.  Is it safe to use a UFS system under 1.1 for this
>purpose?  Is it possible to mount an AmigaDos partition under Unix for this
>purpose?  If either is safe, can someone give me fairly simple (I'm a Unix
>idiot...) directions on how to set it up?
>
>Thanks much,
>
>-Jason-
>
>-Jason-
>
>---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Jason Goldberg				UUCP: ucsd!serene!cbmami!jason
>Del Mar, CA				

I have such a beastie working here. I took a separate disk to
have ufs on.
rdb the drive 
then mkfs -F ufs /dev/dsk/c..... nmbr.of.sectors
mount -F ufs /dev/dsk/c..... /xxx # be sure to have a
mountpoint.
share /xxxx
You can do the mounts and share automaticaly.

There is one problem, that the size is not correctly. f.i. a
40M drive would have 104M free 195M in use this is due to the
blocksize 8K blocks.
This setup runs here for two weeks now and no problems (sofar
:-)), though it is stated that it is broken.

Disclaimer:
I cannot guarantee that it will work for you. you can have
problems with it that I don't know of yet.
If you want to be sure that it is really fixed wait for 2.0, I
know for sure it is fixed there.

-- 


Best regards,

Dick Frijdal
Marketing Support Unix
Commodore nl

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