On 27-Jun-00, Stephen Roffey wrote:
>
>> I seem to remember that, in addition to what other people have responded
>> with, that there was a demo version of PFS available on Aminet at one
>> stage - there certainly was of one of the "new" filesystems.
>>
>> It wasn't very useful - you could use it with a 10 meg partition or
>> something like that, but it gave you a reasonable idea of what it was
>> going to be like.
>>
>
> You may be thinking of the AFS (amifilesafe) demo - I have the 10meg
> limited demo on a CUAmiga (sigh..) disk here. PFS was the replacement
> for AFS. AFS was not well liked, owing to it's propensity to destroy
> stuff - in the last ever Amiga Format (sigh�...) Simon Goodwin voted
> it the worst peice of Amiga software _ever_ for this reason. Avoid.
> If you're gonna use any of these filesystem replacements, make damned
> sure you've got a backup of your RDB on disk somewhere. I don't trust
> 'em...
Just curious: If you changed the filesystem for a partition, would having
a backup of the RDB do you any good for restoring that partiton? It
dosen't seem likely to me. (not that I know heaps about filesystems or
anything.)
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