PFS3 is soon to become free and opensource

[Gulliver]

No news yet.

[Gulliver]

@Dandy

Well done! I hope you manage to get an OS4 build.

BTW, I should add to the list you quoted:
Holger Kruze - Miami Deluxe - No response
Bob Luneski - Termite TCP & GameSmith - YES only binaries
Sebastian Jedruszkiewicz - Frogger NG - No response

[Gulliver]

Re: PFS3
Friday, November 26, 2010 3:11 PM
From:
"Michiel Pelt"
To:
"Ignacio"

Thanks, but no thanks, I do not need help. Indeed it all does takes longer then anticipated.

On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 6:03 PM, Ignacio wrote:

Hello Michiel, It is been a while, and I was wondering if you had any news regarding the release of PFS3. How is this project going on? Do you need help?

Thank you for your time,
Best Regards,
Ignacio

[Gulliver]

@wawrzon
Yes it would be cool to have it in kickstart.
And I got the same feeling from the author, lets hope it was just a bad day or missinterpretation. Anyway I hadnt email him since the end of may. Perhaps I was rude/demanding/or something else? Well, lets wait and see.

[Gulliver]

BTW, I wanted PFS3 in rom thinking on the possibility of booting from a PF3 floppy.

[Gulliver]

@Cosmos
Whilst I see your point in raising money for Michiel in apreciation for PFS3, I really believe it is not necessary. As Michiel pointed out on several ocassions it is a matter of time. I know money doesnt hurt, but probably it wont change the situation.

It is your money, you can do whatever you want with it, but maybe I can suggest you to do other fruitfull things with it for our community. There are many possibilities that come to my mind, for example, donating them for the  Aros-m68k bounty, creating a bounty for a modern opensource 68k browser, create a bounty to persuade an Amiga software author to release his software and opensource it (eg.: IBrowse, FroggerNG, etc), a bounty for a port of a very cool game, for a skype client, etc...

Anyway, if you are really into giving money to Michiel, then it is your call

[Gulliver]

You have only to write a number here...

When reach 600 or 700 euros, we will give the money each of us to Michiel or to Gulliver...

No, please, not to me. If you reach your own goals, I will then ask Michiel , and if he is okay with it, and I will give you his email address, so you may contact him directly. I am sorry but I dont want to be involved in any money issue.

[Gulliver]

I've never even heard about PFS4. Can you point to any reference to these papers and/or ideas?

If you have any ideas post them here: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=532591&atid=2163218

Hi, the following email was sent to me by Michiel on the 10th May 2010, regarding PFS4

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From:
"Michiel Pelt"
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To:
"Ignacio"
> On the other hand, many people are intrigued by your PFS4. Do you have at least a draft of what was supposed to feature? It will be interesting to have any information regarding this filesystem.

PFS3 was a very modern and advanced filesystem for its time, not only
looking at the Amiga market, but at filesystems in general. Over the
years many of the ideas found in PFS3 have been incorporated in other
filesystems. PFS3 was one of the first to be atomic, now more have
this feature. Rollover files still seem to be unique to PFS3.

PFS3 was based on the original shareware PFS which was designed as a
floppy filesystem. A lot of changes have been made to make PFS work on
ever larger harddisks and the result was PFS3 which works pretty well.
The most recent Linux filesystems like Reiser4 surpass it though, but
there is one area where PFS3 remains king: the floppy or other
relatively small removable disks like ZIP, what it was originally
designed to work on.

PFS4 is a new design from the ground up. It takes the good things from
PFS3 and adds new ideas inspired by scientific papers and open source
filesystems like Reiser. Most notable improvements compared to PFS3
are
- B+ tree for directory structure which improves scalability and
handling of large directories.
- Redesign of the atomic commit feature.
- Automatic grouping of small files which results in both more
storagespace and better performance.
- Builtin automatic defragmentation and improved fragmentation prevention.

Note that PFS4 only exists on paper.

Best regards,

Michiel Pelt
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