Re: BFFS 1.5

[Stefan Hensen <hensen%wpos4.physik.uni-wuppertal.de@localhost>]

On 22 Aug 1998, Georges Heinesch wrote:

> btw, when writing to the NetBSD from AmigaOS using BFFS 1.5 beta, did
> you never encounter any serious corruptions to the NetBSD filesystems?

While using NetBSD 1.2, BFFS was the only possibility for me to transfer
files to and from the NetBSD filesystems. That was because at that time the
Fastlane Z3 driver could not access more than one SCSI device, which
prevented reading the AmigaOS disk and using the tape drive from the NetBSD
side. I even had to use BFFS in one step of the NetBSD installation (that
was a bit tricky, but it worked). During all this, I never had any serious
problems with filesystem corruptions.

> I guess that the fsck operation on NetBSD startup (right after files
> were copied to a filesystem from AmigaOS) is quite normal and no
> reason to bother, right? This is probably because the clear flag is
> not set.

Yes, this seems to be the case.

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