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1. Correct2. They can either be installed in the RDB of the HD or placed in the L directory
Those facts have always kept me away from SFS and the like. If the new ROMs project will work with traditional AOS 3.x it would be very cool to have this built-in.
FS on the hard drive just seems volatile to me. Simply, harddrives are corruptible. When it starts to go bad the whole thing just becomes a black hole. Well, I know I have been through that, power cut offs, harddrive is messed up.
I think what he means is that if your filesystem is on disk and that part of the disk happens to go bad, it may complicate rescuing whatever else is on the disk.
Well, I know I have been through that, power cut offs, harddrive is messed up.
How are the hard drives not corruptible with the FS in the ROM? I find this fear irrational. It makes no difference whether the FS is in the ROM or the drive.
pfs4 could happen if the sources would have been open.
for instance i have formatted an pfs3 partition using normal format command. there were muforce hits and the task froze. nevertheless rhe partition seems to be formatted allright. checked that few times and im using it ever since with no issues. one could cure issues like thiese perhaps.
And maybe you can answer this, how often is a FS stored on disk accessed as the machine does regular CRUD operations? Or is it moved into memory?/QUOTE]Hi TheGoose... If your HD fails so badly then whether the FS is in ROM or on the RDB your still going to need some other method of booting up to try and recover it eg:a floppy disk with appropriate recovery tools.If it's a minor fail then it really make no difference whether the FS is in ROM or on the RDB. The only advantage I can see with having the FS on the RDB or in L is as I have said before, the ability to easily update it when/if a new version is released. So the major disadvantage of having the FS in the ROM is the lack of ability to easy update it. Now I think about it all of the FS I use are on the RDB or in the L drawer (even FFS) as the versions I use are the latest one's ever released and aren't available on a Kickstart ROM.Once the FS system is read at bootup as part of the bootup sequence it's basically stored in ram and so no further disk accessing is needed for the actual FS code while you use your Amiga.Other than that it's up to you which way you think would suit yourself best...
atI didn't say that did I? They are always corruptible. It's more a question of what would be worse? A HD with a corruption that affected the FS (stored on the disk). If that happens how do you go about fixing it or just recovering anything off of it, with no FS available?
And maybe you can answer this, how often is a FS stored on disk accessed as the machine does regular CRUD operations?
Or is it moved into memory?
what is/are the disadvantages of a FS on disk. You can't think of any?
BTW, I wanted PFS3 in rom thinking on the possibility of booting from a PF3 floppy.