Matthew Wakeling said,
> 2. PFS3 and SFS volumes *do not* invalidate. They are designed to show the
> old disk state if interrupted while writing. However, this security
> only covers the meta-data. If one is half-way through altering the
> contents of a file, the bit that was being written may be wrong
> afterwards.
If PFS is interrupted during a disk write, the old file will be used
after rebooting. The atomic update system means that the old file isn't
deleted, nor the directory pointers changed, until the new file is
completely written.
> 3. If you accidentally blatt various portions of the disk surface (though
> how you would manage that is anyone's guess - I did), then you are far
> more likely to get something back from FFS than PFS2 - I don't know
> about SFS.
PFS3 comes with recovery software.
>> Anyone tested new the latest File-System that came with the new
>> AmigaOS3.5?
It's the old FFS with the drive size limits removed and 64 bit
addressing.
Neil
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