Path: utzoo!yunexus!geac!syntron!jtsv16!uunet!mcvax!unido!altger!space 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 Lines: 24 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. -- M. Gandhi