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From: dan@ivucsb.UUCP (Dan Howell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: FFS on floppies
Keywords: floppy, ffs, 1.3
Message-ID: <433@ivucsb.UUCP>
Date: 7 Dec 88 00:37:05 GMT
Organization: The Audio Club at UCSB, Isla Vista, California
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Well, I finally got around to getting that ffsfloppy program from Unix to
my Amiga.  I followed the instructions and everything seems to work fine.

Now to test ffs, I copied the entire c directory from workbench to my ffs
disk.  When I did a directory, I noticed no improvement. (6 seconds on
ofs, 6 seconds on ffs).  So what's the deal?  Where's the marked increase
in speed I'm supposed to get from ffs?  I was thinking of converting over
to ffs, (Note: I have no hard drive, just 2 floppies) but I'm not sure its
worth the hassle, considering I can't boot off them.

I was wondering, is anyone else running ffs on floppies and having a
different experiences than me?  Anyone found a way to make the hassle
of having to boot off an ofs floppy minimal?  Is there anyway to partition
a floppy into a ofs bootable partition and a ffs partition?

And how am I supposed to convice PC users that the Amiga is superior when
directories are so much slower?  :-)

 
-- Dan Howell  <...!pyramid!comdesign!ivucsb!dan>  
-- The Heineken Uncertainty Principle:
--	You can never be sure how many beers you had last night.