Aros HD Installation Tutorial

[Louis Dias]

Is there a way to get it to use SFS natively yet?
The OS will always be slow if it has to rely on FFS.  Well, file access and directory browsing anyway.

I guess the quick solution, since memory isn't an issue with typical AROS boxes, is to make all commands memory resident...but that doesn't help opening drawers (yes, I didn't say folders!).  However, making all commands memory resident would slow down the bootup process, I imagine.

Also, an english translation would go a long way.  Thanks.

[Louis Dias]

Heinz wrote:

SFS would be a lot faster, but FFS is not painfully slow on real Hardware.

Well, I haven't used real hardware since '98.  What wasn't painfully slow then on real hardware will kill you today.  People consider an OS as a kernal, but really the key word is "System".  That system consists of a kernal, a user-interface and a FILE SYSYTEM.  If anyone of those 3 things is cumbersome or bottle-necked, the "system" is not user-friendly or particularly useful.

Remember, the floppy disk file system actually reads an entire track into memory at once then returns the requested sector to the "application", iirc.  Clearly, alot of thought was not put into the original design of the file systems on the Amiga.  I guess they felt anything was a step up from the Commodore 1541 and the tape drives, lol...!

I know even accessing Windows folders in WinUAE is painfully slow.  I have a media folder with ~900 files in it.  I won't even dare open that drawer!