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Title: filesystems for internet
Post by: amiga4001 on May 03, 2005, 09:22:33 PM

Was looking at my setup and noticed a newer filesystem(fs 45.9) instead of my 45.13 original installed with os 3.9.
I want to get higher rates/seeektimes on the partition which I use for internet.For caching that is of Ibrowse.
As it will crash so now and then it has to be really reliable and fast with little files.
Any advice?

Title: Re: filesystems for internet
Post by: Lemonty on May 03, 2005, 09:56:55 PM

Isn't 45.13 newer than 45.9? Anyway, you might try SFS filesystem or PFS. Increasing your partition's buffersize will  also help as will installing some cache system (hypercache or similar system).

Good luck.

Title: Re: filesystems for internet
Post by: Ilwrath on May 03, 2005, 11:06:55 PM

Yeah, I think it's actually an older version of the filesystem, as well.

Many times the format is:
version.revision
not:
floating point version

Therefore, 45.13 newer than 45.9 - Pretend there's a zero there, and it makes more sense...  45.13 > 45.09  :-)

Title: Re: filesystems for internet
Post by: Doobrey on May 03, 2005, 11:25:13 PM

There`s an unofficial patch on aminet to bring it to 45.14
http://main.aminet.net/package.php?package=biz/patch/FFS4514p.lha (http://main.aminet.net/package.php?package=biz/patch/FFS4514p.lha)

Title: Re: filesystems for internet
Post by: Lemonty on May 04, 2005, 10:39:48 AM

Changing the FastFileSystem from one revision to a newer one will not make your harddisk noticeably faster (it may improve reliability though). If your controller is a standard IDE job (found in A1200 and A4000) then the maximum performance would be around 3 Mb/s. Even fast IDE harddisks will stop at that maximum when attached to them.
Solution: Get yourself a fast IDE controller or an CPU expansion card with a SCSI controller on it and attach a fast disk to that.
SCSI-3 controllers are found on CyberstormIII cards and are currently the fastest around for classic Amigas. They give a maximum performance of 40 Mb/s. Get a harddisk to match and you're off!

Title: Re: filesystems for internet
Post by: Framiga on May 04, 2005, 12:15:27 PM

If you want a fast and reliable diskcache partition, download SFS

Create a 100MB partition

If you have enough RAM:

dosbuffers 512

blocksize 512 bytes (always with SFS)

when you will format the SFS partition, format it WITHOUT the recycled dir

SFSFormat DEVICE YOURPART: NAME POO NORECYCLED

Then you can gain the performances, using SFSConfig (it eats some memory)

i.e

SFSConfig <>NIL: DeviceNameOfYourPartition: 32 32768 107 60 2 COPYBACK

where 32 and 32768 are the cachelines used (try other values as well) max 100 32768

NOTE- the settings made with SFSConfig, are not permanent.

Type it in a shell and test. When you have found the better performances, slap the line in UserStartup.