Hello Andy!

Friday October 22 1999 21:56, Andy Roberts wrote to Mike Roark:


 AR> If you have don't REM this line in Config.sys and Autoexce.bat
 AR> -+-
 AR> SET DELDIR=C:\DELETE,512;D:\DELETE,512;E:\DELETE,512;F:\DELETE,512;
 AR> -+-
 AR> then there is no difference between FAT and HPFS for recovering the
 AR> last 512K of deleted files, using what comes with Warp.

 AR> OTOH many users like me do have that REM (because normal operation is
 AR> faster) and still have no problem recovering deleted files from all
 AR> HPFS, using a 3rd party util such as Graham Utilities hpfs-ud.exe.

The performance hit is what I didn't like. At the time I was using the deldir, 
I was doing a lot of maintenance on the system. And the BBS was on the drive
so everytime I did maintenance on it the system slowed to a crawl.


 AR> While I can think of a lot of reasons to use HPFS rather than FAT, I
 AR> can not think of any good reason to use FAT rather than HPFS.

Isn't that the truth.. ;-)

 AR> Now if you had been (but weren't) talking about JFS of Aurora, then
 AR> that would have been different.  I'm still waiting to see what Chris
 AR> Graham or JdeBP come up with as far as utilities for Aurora.  But then
 AR> again, Aurora or WSeB is Server (only so far) so it's not a problem a
 AR> newbie should be concerned about.

Exactly.. It's priced way out of my range..


Have a good day!!
Mike
Internet bcomber@cave.fido.de

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