Re: AFS a piece of crap? no

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From: Mike Redrobe
Date: Sun, 12 May 1996 00:00

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Hi, CountB , on 11-May-96 12:30:09 you scribbled....
>Mike Redrobe (Mike@Redrobe.demon.co.uk) wrote:
>>
>> Hi, CountB , on 09-May-96 22:23:56 you scribbled....
>> >Barry Shilliday (barry_s@nibelung.demon.co.uk) wrote:
>> >> If you don't have a clue, stay away from AFS.  Otherwise
>> >> use it, it's one of the most useful things available.

>> > Oh and when you do,
>> *if* you do...

>When. I've had it 8 months and expect a failure every 2. (18 hours a day
>usage).
mu-AFS?  I don't but....

I've had it 10 months 16 hours a day usage , and only one failure was my
own stupidity (using fastboot without diskchange..)
but even then I didn't lose anything.

>> >I lost a partition last week. Fortunately I saw it going so backed up the
>>
>> .....and what were the signs?

>First sign is a non-deletable directory called nothing, second is a write
I take it you mean " " ?

>protected disk. DO NOT wait for more and you'll be okay.
never seen anything like that...

>Its not too bad with FFS as you can recover 99% of stuff. AFS you can't.

only because of 3rd party stuff (disksalv,qback...)
compare like with like? (Its normally PC people I say that too ;)

BTW I never got 99% here...


Mike

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From: Mike@Redrobe.demon.co.uk (Mike Redrobe)
Subject: Re: AFS a piece of crap? no
Date: 1996/05/12
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