Re: BFFS Icons

[Patryk Łogiewa <silverdr%inet.com.pl@localhost>]

Hello Gunther

On 23-Kwi-01, you 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.

Yeah... Frankly, I am not sure if this would be the way to go. AFAIR usually
it's done while unmounting. Once the filesystem is not umounted in a proper
way (e.g. a crash or whatever), it remains !clean. Thus making it clean
after every write probably would strongly affect this mechanism.

> In my experience BFFS does easily crash for
> no obvious reasons.

Haven't you had mcp in your AmigaOS? ;-) Those are quite commont symptoms in
such cases...

Seriously - I recall using it (1.5b AFAIR) quite heavily for some time with
NO single prob beside the need to fsck (which was always painless) every
time I booted into NetBSD after using BFFS to write something into the NBSD
partitions.

Oh yes, I recall having some probs with the fs links (don't remember now
what were the symptoms and what side caused that) but none with plain
files.

Regards
-- 
      / /
     / /
    / /  silverdr%wfmh.org.pl@localhost
\ \/ /
 \/\/