Mail Archives: opendos/1997/02/12/09:25:37
> From owner-opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net Tue Feb 11 15:48:40 1997
> From: mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca
> Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 04:13:23 -0500 (EST)
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> Subject: Re: [opendos] BAD Filesystems
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> On Mon, 10 Feb 1997, MORRIS JP wrote:
>
> > NO, NO, NO, NO!
> >
> > I have already lost 3 hard disks to compression and I do not intend to
> > lose any more.
> >
> > Disk compression is EVIL!
>
> Bravo! Another anti-compressionist!
>
> > Let me tell you a little tale....
> >
> > Many years ago when I was just learning C, I wrote a little game using the
> > BGI system (didn't we all?).
>
> Heh heh, yah, too bad we didn't know that it was easier to use
> ASM and our own routines eh?
>
That came later.
> > Unfortunately, my sprite info got corrupted, and I ended up with an object
> > 1 pixel wide and 2048 high, under cursor control.
> >
> > In a fit of curiosity, I dangled it out the bottom of the screen.
> > Down out the screen, down through the ROMS, into the UMB and it speared my
> > SuperStor (came free with DR-DOS 6!!) driver straight through the heart.
>
> Hmmm. Bummer. I've heard nothing but stories like this about
> disk compression. Everyone that I know who has used disk
> compression (regardless of which program they've used) has lost
> their drive at one point in time or another.
>
> > Superstor's last dying action was to turn my hard disk into one file called
> > £"$%"£$%"£ which was 1gb long. (This was a 40mb MFM disk)
> >
> > This was the logical drive. On the physical drive, I did inspect the
> > remains of the superstor drive, which was a big long file full of LZW data.
> >
> > Therefore I could not recover my disk, and the only recourse was to remove
> > the file and start again.
> >
> > I used superstor twice after that, lost both of the disks to various
> > software crashes and never touched superstor again.
>
> Didn't learn the first time? Heh heh. Well, I was just thinking
I was only about 15 at the time.. I had one 40MB MFM disk which cost £195.
BC 2 took up a large portion of that, so I was desparate for more space!
It was interesting to note that the compressed drive was much faster than the
uncompressed partition.
> of trying out the Stacker that comes with OpenDOS. I've never
> used disk compression on my own machines before, and I figured
> that maybe it would work now since it's been around for years
> now. You've just convinced me against it permanently I think.
> I'm not willing to jeopardize ANY data. EVER!
>
> > I assume we use FAT for removable disks, otherwise we will have hundreds of
> > incompatible floppy disks.
>
> Well, how would I put ext2 LFN files on floppy then? What about
> symbolic links? I know that I'll be using ext2 for floppies.
Yeah, but I was hoping to read the files on a win95 system, or a dos 6.2 system
or an OS/2 system.
Still, I suppose you could choose..
> The OS will read any floppies that it has IFS support for. I
> mean you're only probably going to have 2 types anyways; FAT, and
> ext2. I hardly think we'll see too many "serious" useful
> filesystems crop up. ext2 is as good as anyone needs.
>
Where can I find out about ext2? It looks to be quite popular, so I'd like to
know what it's like.
> Mike A. Harris | http://blackwidow.saultc.on.ca/~mharris
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