>> 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.)
Ultimately, you need a total backup of your drive. It should be recent.
PFS doesn't seem to come ungued as badly as AFS did, at least for me,
it just write protected the partition and I was able to recover all but
30 files out of about 2 GB. My backups were recent enough to mostly fill
in the gaps. When AFS died, it was sudden and total. I've found that the
larger the partition, the longer it takes to go chips up, and the only
ones to dies are the ones I used for very frequent RWs -- cache, email,
news, etc. The 4GB partition I have this data on lasted about 8 months
before it died. Before that, I had a 300 mb partition for the same
type of activities and with AFS it was good for about 3 months. With FFS
I lost it about every fourth time it invalidated, which was about twice
a week. When I went to a 20 GB drive, FFS was out of the question --
too fragile and now no recovery tools.
In spite of the occasional problem, on balance, PFS is far superior
to FFS. You just need recent backups. But, then that's just good sense
anyway.
Doug Rudd
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