Re: AFFS fixes v1

From: Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Date: Thu Mar 30 2000 - 18:51:09 EST


On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Nicholai Benalal wrote:

> Hello Alexander
>
> Den 31-Mar-00, skrev Alexander Viro:
>
> AV> The bottom line: AFFS design is a festering pile of dung and attempts to
> AV> make it look like UNIX filesystem only made it uglier. Judging by
> AV> dejanews search, AmigaOS itself doesn't handle it well. Hell knows what
> AV> had stopped them from replacing it with decent filesystem - with the
> AV> thing outside of kernel it wasn't that hard to do... Damnit, FAT is not
> AV> so braindead compared to that abortion.
> AV>
>
> AFFS works allright under AmigaOS. It has limitations but generally it's ok.

Search for comp.sys.amiga.* & link* & director* & FFS

> So the best way to transfer files between the Amiga side and Linux is still the
> buggy Linux affs driver :-)

Hrrrmmm... I surely hope that somebody _had_ ported tar to AmigaOS, right?

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