hamilton@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (05/15/88)
elg@killer says: > What I'm wondering about is -- since FFS is so unsafe on floppies, > how can we trust our hard drives to it? that bothers me too. i'm going to have to decide whether the performance gain outweighs the robustness loss (from the absence of the redundancy info in data blocks - ie, no more disksalv-ability). i think i'll be running with several partitions on my HD, some SFS (new material) and some FFS (temp space, rarely changed material). wayne hamilton U of Il and US Army Corps of Engineers CERL UUCP: {ihnp4,seismo,pur-ee,uunet}!uiucuxc!osiris!hamilton ARPA: hamilton@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu USMail: Box 476, Urbana, IL 61801 CSNET: hamilton%osiris@uiuc.csnet Phone: (217)333-8703