From: MORRIS JP Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 13:56:51 GMT Message-Id: <199702121356.NAA10557@milly> To: opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net Subject: Re: [opendos] BAD Filesystems Sender: owner-opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net Precedence: bulk > 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) > X-Sender: root AT capslock DOT com > Cc: opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net > Subject: Re: [opendos] BAD Filesystems > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE > > 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 > Computer Consultant | My webpage has moved and my address has changed. > My dynamic address: http://blackwidow.saultc.on.ca/~mharris/ip-address.html > mailto:mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca > > URL of the day: http://www.sun.com >