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From: space@altger.UUCP (Lars Soltau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Problems with Fast File System
Summary: help wanted to get rid of incompatibilities with FFS
Keywords: FFS problems
Message-ID: <909@altger.UUCP>
Date: 14 Aug 88 10:49:58 GMT
Article-I.D.: altger.909
Reply-To: space@altger.UUCP (Lars Soltau)
Organization: Altos Computer Systems Munich
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When  C=A  released the  Fast File System I thought  that we  got rid of one
major disadvantage of the Amiga:  the original file  system is unbearable on
floppies and most annoying on a hard disk.  After some  unsuccessful tries I
discovered  that  FFS  only works  with  handmounted  partitions.  I  *hate*
partitions.  I don't  see the  need  to  split a  hard disk into two logical
devices.  So I  installed a  new partition HD0:,  starting on track 2.  This
way I would lose no HD space on a slow partition, and if I never referred to
DH0: again, everything shoulda worked fine. 

  Then the first troubles  started.  The Dillon Shell was unable to call Run
anymore.  wKeys didn't recognize the left shift key if its handler is called
from FFS.  And now I discovered that  if I download files with Drew/Wecker's
VT100,  zoo won't  read its archives,  programs won't  get started  ("not an
object module")  and so on.  I copied  the rejected files to RAM: and voila:
programs ran, zoo extracted.  I am at a point where I nearly reinstalled the
old file system again.  Does anyone know how to get rid of  these incompati-
bilities?  And no, I don't want to copy Run to RAM:  and call it from there.
That's no general solution. 

-- 
Lars Soltau		uucp: uunet!mcvax!unido!altger!space
Tapachstr. 95
D-7000 Stuttgart 40	An eye for an eye ends up with the whole world blind.
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