SmartFileSystem (SFS) freezes my A4000 - help

[KennyR]

I have my suspicions about IBrowse2.3 and SFS. Here the cache can corrupt the filesystem, especially on faster systems. I'd advise anyone who uses IBrowse cache to run it from a non-SFS partition, or a special cache partition of its own so it can be quickly formatted. This 'bug' really needs to be investigated.

Once any SFS partition is corrupt, you must rescue the files and then format. There is no way to fix it. That's why the IB issue is so serious.

[KennyR]

I have SFS 1.201 (July 25th 2003). 128 buffers, all other config left at default.

I don't know the source of this problem, but I've considered it serious enough to turn off IB cache completely, after corrupting the partition it was on twice.

[KennyR]

@Framiga

I prefer to keep a small amount of dosbuffers. Large buffers just use too much CPU time, and the buffers should be kept to a multiple of 8 anyway. If I need more buffers I'd just use SFS's caches instead.

[KennyR]

Yes, that's the same buffers I mean. They are called dosbuffers.