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From: charles@hpcvcd.HP (Charles Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Close Call (Supra hard drive)
Message-ID: <4410009@hpcvcd.HP>
Date: Wed, 29-Jul-87 20:42:48 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 29 20:42:48 1987
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>> Ya know, some people complain about the poor performance of AmigaDOS,
>> but ask yourself something - have you ever lost a disk because of
>> the DOS?  In my experience it has ALWAYS been media failure, or
>> copy protection failure.
>> 	Paul Higginbottom.

I am not sure it is so clear whether a particular failure is caused
by the operating system or by the media.  Well, maybe the failure
really is in the media, but the operating system is not very
convenient about recovering the disk.  I want to be able to recover
as much as possible from a corrupt file.  AmigaDo* PROTECTS me from
that.

>At the very least you should *attempt* to put the file headers contiguously
>after the directory, to the point of not allocating any other blocks on a
>directory track until there simply isn't any more room elsewhere. Ideally you
>should do a UNIX-style file system with preferential caching of inodes, then
>directories, then files.
>-- Peter da Silva `-_-' ...!seismo!soma!uhnix1!sugar!peter

One of the nice things about Un*x, with its inodes is linking.  Is
the Amig* file system able to do this?  I sorely miss it.
	Charles Brown	hplabs!hp-pcd!charles