Re: AFS a piece of crap? no

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From: Mike Redrobe
Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 00:00

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Hi, CountB , on 09-May-96 22:23:56 you scribbled....
>Barry Shilliday (barry_s@nibelung.demon.co.uk) wrote:
>> I'm tired of people flaming AFS, saying how it crashes their drives, how
>> it's no faster than FFS.  The fact is it *is* a lot faster, it is
>> practically impossible to invalidate and is infinitely better than FFS-DC.

>Agreed.
seconded

>> If you don't have a clue, stay away from AFS.  Otherwise
>> use it, it's one of the most useful things available.

>It is great if you are prepared to lose the lot for no reason.
no reason? I find that hard to believe..

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

>I lost a partition last week. Fortunately I saw it going so backed up the
                               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>new bits and reformatted.

....and what were the signs?

>Buy AFS, but buy a backup device too.
you should be backing up regardless of filesystem/media.
Thats a lesson always learned the hard way.



Mike

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