Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!nuchat!peter
From: peter@nuchat.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Semicoherent flame about Amigados.
Message-ID: <644@nuchat.UUCP>
Date: 10 Feb 88 11:43:19 GMT
Organization: Public Access - Houston, Tx
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Time for my periodic semicoherent flame about Amigados.

It's STILL the least reliable file system I have ever used. When I complained
about this here I received the following response:

	"Well don't work from floppies, copy everything to VD0: and do
	 your thing from there" (paraphrased)

Well, luckily for me I'm running with 4.5 megabytes of RAM and so I can do
that. Other people don't have that option.

Amigados is just plain flakey. Almost every disk error means you lose an
entire track, thanks to the 1 sector per track concept (let's not argue
about what a sector is, hey? As far as the electronics is concerned it's
all one big sector). A good proportion of the time the lost track is
the root track, unsurprisingly enough.

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).

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.
-- 
-- a clone of Peter (have you hugged your wolf today) da Silva  `-_-'
-- normally  ...!hoptoad!academ!uhnix1!sugar!peter                U
-- Disclaimer: These aren't mere opinions... these are *values*.