Olaf Barthel on the Amiga file system

[JetRacer]

After reading this I think the only sane thing to do is to trash dos.library + FFS and use emulation for legacy filesystems. I can't come up with a single reason for sticking with FFS or the weird DOS in the future.

I'm using SFS (SmartFileSystem) now and I've never looked back. If dos.library is everything that stands between the users and even better filesystems, then there's not much choice as far as I'm concerned.

To hell with FFS and re-implement dos.library instead. Let's migrate people. Backwards compatibility at any cost is not a virtue.

[JetRacer]

SFS can be found here:

http://www.xs4all.nl/~hjohn/SFS

SFS is extremely fast. When I changed from FFS to SFS I could hardly believe my eyes. It was like getting a serius hardware upgrade(!). It's half the reason I still use my good old A1200 frequently, even though I got a top notch x86.

It's extremely safe too. Havn't even had the slightest problem with it since I started using it. Unlike FFS, which had a good chance of messing things up. And the notorius crashing of FFS while validating partitions residing beyond the 2GB limit almost drove me nuts. Thank god for SFS!