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From: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Hard Disk Performance tests, comments invited
Message-ID: <5102@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 25 Oct 88 20:52:50 GMT
References: <8810211759.AA12878@cory.Berkeley.EDU> <1744@sbcs.sunysb.edu>
Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <1744@sbcs.sunysb.edu> root@sbcs.sunysb.edu (root) writes:
>In article <8810211759.AA12878@cory.Berkeley.EDU>, dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes:
>	I run my Sun single-user but have other pseudo users running
>	at the same time in the background, ie uucp, daemon for lpd, mail, 
>	etc.  Maintaining ownership does not necessarily imply a multi-user
>	machine.  This sort of protection is useful in the more general 
>	sense.  

Agreed; I don't think you need as general an ownership mechanism
as Un*x gives you.  I think that just 3 levels (user, system, and other)
would probably take care of the needs of most people.

>
>> 	mmm...  UNIX again.  Not true, there are three crash recovery
>> mechanisms available on the Amiga:  The internal recovery system, the
>> one C-A provides, and a PD one... probably even more.
>
>	Uh, yeah right.  Diskdoctor, at least when I last used it, collects
>	all the files into the top level disk directory and basically
>	punts from there.  Sorry, fsck (although not great) does a

Diskdoctor (under 1.3) has lost this disturbing tendency of moving
files about; in fact, except for its memory requirements on large
)hard disk partitions (it wants 1 meg of ram per 20 meg of partition)
does a reasonable job these days.
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