Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!mailrus!ames!ptsfa!well!ewhac
From: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Semicoherent flame about Amigados.
Summary: Semicoherent is being too generous :-)
Message-ID: <5220@well.UUCP>
Date: 11 Feb 88 20:19:16 GMT
References: <644@nuchat.UUCP>
Reply-To: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Organization: The mideast nation of Sehwuht
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In article <644@nuchat.UUCP> peter@nuchat.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
>Please, after you finish the fast file system... get a reliable on. It doesn't
>have to be big: 720K per diskette would be fine. But it needs to have real
>sectors to act as firewalls when corruption occurs (as it invariably does).
>	 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
	At last!  Phrased in a way I understand, and agree with.  I would
not argue with such a change.

	However, I'd supply the counterpoint that I, personally, have very
rarely had problems with disk corruption (I can think of only one incident).
Either I'm leading a blessed life, or Peter's drives may be a teensy bit off
spec.  Realize that I'm just guessing, however.

	And now, the real point of this posting:

>Finally, I have a suggestion for the multitasking shuffle. Have LoadSeg keep
>a semaphore for each floppy, and single-thread itself. Make Copy respect it.
>And publish how to use it so that we can make our utilities do the same
>thing.

	(Motion of hand moving rapidly over head whilst uttering, "Whoosh!")

	Huh??  Could you clarify that one; you lost me completely.

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