Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!cbmvax!steveb
From: steveb@cbmvax.UUCP (Steve Beats)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: FaccII patch for HardDisks
Message-ID: <3422@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 7 Mar 88 14:32:36 GMT
References: <555@io.UUCP> <10116@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> <AW=6c-y00Xo8A4y1oY@andrew.cmu.edu> <10132@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com>
Reply-To: steveb@cbmvax.UUCP (Steve Beats)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <10132@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> eric@hector (Eric Lavitsky) writes:
>
>With the advent of FFS it seems that such a product would be wasted effort.
>For most people's purposes (single fairly slow drive, few multiple task
>disk access and FFS with buffers), FFS will be fine. A product written for
>the slow file system (SFS) would not work under the FFS. ........
>
>Eric
>

I beg your pardon?  ANY application written for the old file system will work
with FFS.  Applications don't give a toss about the disk layout, they just
ask for files from the disk via the filesystem.  Since FFS supports all of
the old packet types and returns the same results there are no compatibility
problems.  (Except maybe the packets come back too fast :-)

	Steve