Bob Quintal wrote:
> I disagree strongly. V has a bug that causes it to crash the OS while writing a
> file. The OS also has a bug which causes it to unvalidate a drive if the
> drive is being written when the OS crashes. Yes there is a minor problem
> with the OS, but there is a major problem in V.
>
> If any program crashes the OS while writing a file to the disk, thats a
> serious bug, wether or not the OS has a bug too..
I'm sorry to butt in with arguments over semantics, but this is
clearly entirely opinion orientated, as opposed to fact orientated.
V does NOT have a bug which is related to writing files. What we do
have is a program that *on some people's systems* is not as stable as
we'd like. Since it also happens to write to disk a lot it is *likely*
to cause an invalidation. The invalidation is a consequence of how
the Amiga native filing system works (and how most others, including
PC ones work). The filing system or OS isn't bugged in this respect,
the re-validation is a deliberate effort to recover from the crash
safely.
> > It's probably just the case that Voyager either a) writes to the disk more
> > than other apps, for probably perfectly sensible reasons or b) it crashes
> > more. But in itself it isn't causing the invalidation of the disk.
>
> This is technically true, but still so wrong. Your dismissal of a serious
> bug as " it crashes more." is a denial of reality.
But that *is* the reality. If V crashes a lot on your system, that is
the problem. I can't see why you want to make more of it than that.
By all means find *what* causes it to crash and report it as a bug,
but to make a general statement of "V invalidates my harddrive" is a
severe oversimplification.
For the record, V hasn't crashed on my machine in the last several
weeks. I do agree it is a bit crash-prone, but if you're getting
serious random system bomb-outs when running V I'd start to look at
system patches you're running, library file versions and so on.
Regards,
Ian
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