Smart Filesystem: Is it worth it?

[mr_a500]

My old harddrive got corrupted a few times using FFS (45.9), so with my new harddrive I thought I'd try out Smart Filesystem instead - to avoid the long validation of FFS and hopefully speed things up. I set up a test partition, but so far I haven't noticed a speed increase.

I heard some people say SFS is way faster, others had major problems with it. I want to hear from more people who actually use it regularly before deciding if I should use it.

Also, I've been testing version 1.58. Is there a newer version somewhere?

[mr_a500]

I'm using an A500 WB 3.1, KS 3.0, 33Mhz 020, 8Mb RAM, 2Mb Chip, 40Gb 2.5" 5400 RPM IDE HD.

I have just found a newer SFS v. 1.236. (bad numbering - I would have thought 1.58 newer than 1.236)



@lempkee

What do you mean about regular backups? Does that mean it is unreliable or easily corrupted?

[mr_a500]

Well I've been playing with SFS for a few days now and here are a few things I've noticed:

ABCdir (my favourite filemanager by far) crashes with filenames > 30 characters. This is not a fault of SFS, but I can't really do without ABCdir. I don't name files > 30 characters, but downloaded files could cause problems.

MUI screens don't close and then crash when clicking on screen depth. I don't know how the filesystem would start causing this, but it never happened on my other FFS HDs.

SFSsalv doesn't work on my 3Gb partition because it complains of not enough memory - with 6Mb Fast and 1.5Mb Chip free.

Overall, everything seems slower. It's a pity because I like the .recycled folder and the idea of not having to wait for validation.

[mr_a500]

adolescent - it's funny you should mention corruption on SYS:. Just as I was posting my last post, I started noticing weird things. It wouldn't post and my modem appeared to be spending far too long sending data and then IBrowse started acting strangely. I thought maybe I had a virus, so I ran VirusZ and the vector check showed 15 lines of garbage. I wiped the memory and virus-checked all files, then shutdown for a few minutes and tried again. The garbage was still there (not exactly the same). I booted into my backup Workbench partition (identical, but FFS) and the garbage was gone. I tested the SFS and the garbage was back. So I repartitioned and reformatted with FFS and now everything is fine. The MUI screen problem is fixed too.

Now I only have my 3Gb Work partition and internet cache/temp partition SFS until something screws up and I'll forget SFS ever existed.

Just wondering - how much memory does SFSsalv use when checking your 20Gb partition?