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From: jesup@pawl15.pawl.rpi.edu (Randell E. Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Fast File System for floppys ... how to.
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Date: 7 May 88 04:40:23 GMT
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In article <5888@well.UUCP> ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) writes:
>In article <30793@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> kim@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com
>(Kim DeVaughn) writes about how to make the fast filesystem work on
>floppies.
>
>	There's not a lot we can do about this, since it's making the rounds
>on BBS's and such, so might I recommend the following disclaimer be put onto
>all such boards, and be inserted into the shar file that was posted.

	Even worse:  it's almost guaranteed to fail eventually, because as
Steve Beats said at Devcon:  FFS doesn't understand removable media, therefor
it probably doesn't dump buffers when a disk is removed.  This could cause
disks to be destroyed if you EVER change disks (of course, it might not too.
BUT DON'T TRUST IT NOT TO KILL DISKS IF YOU PLAY THESE TRICKS!)

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