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From: hamilton@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: Fast File System for floppys ... ho
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Date: 14 May 88 23:58:00 GMT
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elg@killer says:
> What I'm wondering about is -- since FFS is so unsafe on floppies,  
> how can we trust our hard drives to it?

    that bothers me too.  i'm going to have to decide whether the
performance gain outweighs the robustness loss (from the absence of
the redundancy info in data blocks - ie, no more disksalv-ability).
i think i'll be running with several partitions on my HD, some SFS
(new material) and some FFS (temp space, rarely changed material).

	wayne hamilton
	U of Il and US Army Corps of Engineers CERL
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