Next Generation Amiga File System

[Rodney]

If i remember correctly, Ben was talking about FFS and FFS2. He stated that both, are badly written and the whole archetecture needs an upgrade.

It is an OId file system, and ben sayign this doesnt surprise me. What is everyones feelings on this?

Ben also mention that a solution to the problem may be one of the linux type file systems. All i can think of is maybe ext3, RaesierFS or XFS.

What do you think about that?

If Ben is infact considering something OpenSource to superseed the Old FFS, then i think BeFS deserves a look. It obviously was the file system of its time, and now the OpenBeOS team have had an even better implimentation out for a while now. I would love to see this used as the AmigaOS file system, (not that i know a lot about it, but it sounds good)...

What do you think about FFS, and future choices of filesystems? Maybe there should be a range of filesystems to choose from?

I like the idea that the user, if advance enough, can tweek their OS to work the way they want, so a suit of filesystems would be great (not that i expect that happen, Hyperion have other things to do).

But whats your opinions on the whole thing?

[Rodney]

ext3 is basicaly ext2 (linux file system) with journaling. The only special feature of ext2 that im aware of is that it keeps data less fragmented, but thats not so special these days, as alot of file systems do this.

ResierFS is know for speed and its journaling.

XFS is the an IRIX file system. Know for incredible speed (on smaller files) thanx to (i beleive?) its tree like algorithms... (binary trees's etc?)

Im not up on the file systems, im only going on what i've heard, peoples opinions etc...

From what i heard, the BeOS file system was fantastic, aloud you to do things that most other people dream of. It also gave your applicatiosn that extra boost in speed and functionality (if they had anything to do with searching, or screwing around with the data on the disc).

I also am aware that, this cant happen atm, because OS4 relies heavily on those old 68k programs we know and love.

It'd be good though if at least one person at Hyperion or Amiga Inc was set aside to research to pros and cons... Then possibly put forawrd a design in when its ready to be coded...

But over all, a variety of file systems would be great. I think that could benifit a lot of people. Having several partitions for different files, with different sizes. Choosing the write file system coudl boost your performance and hence productivity. It could also have a large impact on that applications that are written. Could generate a whole new market out there!

Aw well, it'd jsut be grand for that scale of choice!

[Rodney]

So i take it AmigaOS already supports a wide viaraty of File Systems. Is there another example of AmigaOS's great modularity?

What others does it support?