Subject: Re: BFFS Icons
To: Gunther Nikl <gni@gecko.de>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@NetBSD.org>
List: port-amiga
Date: 04/23/2001 19:43:59
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 09:01:34AM +0200, Gunther Nikl wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 11:44:00PM +0100, Patryk Logiewa wrote:
> > >  Please be careful. Use BFFS _only_ for reading partitions. The amiga
> > >  implementation is buggy.
> > 
> > Really? Isn't it the old story about not setting the volume's clean bit
> > only? AFAIR this was the only problem I really encoutered.
> 
>   Maybe thats part of the story, but I fail to see why BFFS can't set the
>   bit after a write was done. In my experience BFFS does easily crash for
>   no obvious reasons.

That would not be a clean, but a stable bit - SunOS 4.mumble has both, and 
they're different.

Regards,
	-is