Re: AFS a piece of crap? no

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From: CountB
Date: Thu, 09 May 1996 00:00

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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.

> 'But it crashed my HD' people say.  Well if they RTFM and set the proper
> maxtrans rate etc, and used HDToolBox/RDPrep properly then maybe they wouldn't
> have these problems. 

Absolute Bollocks!

> 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. Oh and when
you do, don't expect FLD to help out, coz they'll deny it was AFS.

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

Buy AFS, but buy a backup device too.
-- 
           James  ^o^  CountB ^o^  http://www.u-net.com/~gothic

         "Over and over we die one after the other..." - The Cure

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From: bryce@gothic.u-net.com (CountB)
Subject: Re: AFS a piece of crap? no
Date: 1996/05/09
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