From: Nicholai Benalal <nicholai@chello.se>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>,
Dave Jones <dave@denial.force9.co.uk>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu>,
Linux/m68k <linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org>,
Linux/APUS <linux-apus@sunsite.auc.dk>
Subject: Re: AFFS fixes v1
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 00:40:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yam8125.2671.1468844368@smtp.chello.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10003301742340.25071-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>
Hello Alexander
Den 31-Mar-00, skrev Alexander Viro:
AV> The bottom line: AFFS design is a festering pile of dung and attempts to
AV> make it look like UNIX filesystem only made it uglier. Judging by
AV> dejanews search, AmigaOS itself doesn't handle it well. Hell knows what
AV> had stopped them from replacing it with decent filesystem - with the
AV> thing outside of kernel it wasn't that hard to do... Damnit, FAT is not
AV> so braindead compared to that abortion.
AV>
AFFS works allright under AmigaOS. It has limitations but generally it's ok.
Still, a lot of people use other filesystems for AmigaOS but there are no
Linux drivers for these.
So the best way to transfer files between the Amiga side and Linux is still the
buggy Linux affs driver :-)
Regards
Nicholai Benalal
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2000-03-30 23:08 ` [PATCH] " Alexander Viro
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