Re: affs

[Geert U. <ge...@li...>]

On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Roman Zippel wrote:
> > AFFS, the guy (Dave Jones) has it running in 2.3, I assume the changes in
> > 'our' 2.3 are the latest.
> 
> Yes, they are and I just commited some more changes, but there is still a 
> bit to do. OFS is probably still completly broken and FFS writes stop
> somewhere at 4.5MB (the extended block caching is broken).
> It would be great if someone could test the current stuff a bit, but
> please do any tests only on a seperate partition or only with a backup. I

Or on a loopback device.

> don't have disksalv or something like that, so I can't really test if the
> fs structure is still consistent.

It would be nice if someone would write an affsck and mkaffs. A full affsck
that does repairs is probably asked to much for now (given that even a working
affs seems difficult). But an affsck that checks the consistency only is IMHO
something that the guy who wants to fix affs needs anyway.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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