Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!uwmcsd1!leah!bingvaxu!sunybcs!rutgers!topaz.rutgers.edu!melnik From: melnik@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ofer Melnik) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Request to Commodore (Fast File System) Message-ID: Date: 28 Aug 88 22:06:02 GMT References: <8808162044.AA29370@cory.Berkeley.EDU> <779@viscous> <6123@dasys1.UUCP> Reply-To: melnik@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ofer Melnik) Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 30 In article <6123@dasys1.UUCP> sterling@dasys1.UUCP (Sterling Brown) writes: | | I was thinking a while back about the Fast File System not being put on the | floppies in AmigaDos 1.3. It is my understanding that the Fast file | system will not work on the floppies because it is not installed when | the Amiga boots, and Commodore is not putting the FFS in ROM because of | compatibility with the existing file system. Is this true? As far as I know, the reason Commodore is not supporting FFS for floppies is that FFS currently does not support automatic detection of disk changes therefor, if you switch disks without telling it, you will probably have two mangled disks on your hands. Also, if I read correctly, FFS should be in ROM by 1.4. | |\===========================\ /===========================/ | \ Sterling L. Brown........ \ / "When I'm Programming / | \ \ / MSDOS, I'm thinking / | \ Amiga Programmer \=============/ of Amiga."-I said it. / | \ MSDOS Programmer / | \================\ `The Human Opperating System' /================/ | A // Serious \ CIS: 71101,616 /Multifinder.status= | \\ // Amiga \ USENET: sterling@dasys1 / "don't make me laugh!"; | \\/ Programmer \=========================/ OS2->bites=Amigas.Dust; -- Ofer Melnik Rutgers University melnik@topaz.rutgers.edu