Re: AFS a piece of crap? no

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From: Chris Hewitt
Date: Sat, 01 Jun 1996 00:00

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On Wed, 29 May 96, Stephan Roth wrote:

> This never happened to me! I used AFS on an IDE drive as long as it's been available and 
> it never (since 15.9)gave me that space. I don't use the Trashcan anymore, by the way. 
> AFS is crap IMHO. Errors all the time. Now I'll see what it does to my SCSI drive. I 
> paid enough for it, I hope it works at least there. By the way, it's actually slower on 
> the SCSI drive than FFS (tested with DTA) at pure transfer rate. Crap, crap, crap.

Not for me. Tests performed using DTA on a 1.8Mb file, AFS 2.4 (16.16) Direct SCSI

Internal IDE
    FFS         500K/s
    AFS         1.1M/s

SCSI via Surf Squirrel
    FFS         1.7M/s
    AFS         3.5M/s  (frequent peaks at 4.2M/s :)

So as you can see AFS works very well for me

Chris

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