Which filesystem?

[tomekm]

well, the pfs3 and sfs seem to be close. I noticed that pfs is a bit faster with smaller cache, but it has one annoying thing: when you finish writing data, you need to wait a while for pfs to close root, otherwise if you reset machine you will loose last changes. It drives me crazy sometimes when I modify startup and want to reboot, sometimes i forget to wait and loose changes. But anyway i`m using pfs3 on system partition and sfs on work. I never had data losses or othe things. I`m using my system for 4 years without reinstalling. It lasted through 5 hard drives i upgraded, 020Fast->030/28->030/40->040/40 upgrades, OS 3.0->3.1->3.5 and finally 3.9 update and OpusMagellan installation... Still works fine and occupies only 70megs of my 4gb drive... with many many add-ons installed.

[tomekm]

Brian wrote:

"I sugest this: For the system partision keep FFS... yes it's slower and validation is a pain when it has to BUT in my oppinion it's safer and have better recovery tools. Just keep it small and you should be safe. For the rest use SFS, it's fast and it's free.

For seing drives larger than 4/8GB you need kick3.1 and a newer scsi.device (such as found in WB3.9) I belive."

Maybe you`re right, but Amiga never crashes without reason, so
if you prevent the reasons, you`ll get no crashes (in theory), so you`ll not need to repair the disk. My system is well-configured and stable. It does not crash at all. Even if it crashes, remember that both PFS and SFS have special autorepair routines. MY HARDDRIVE NEVER CRASHED BECAUSE OF GURU OR SOMEWHAT. Also DiskSalv has the option to recover data from pfs disk. But i never needed to use it.

As for seeing big drives: yes, put scsi.device v44+ to RAM and you`ll be fine. if your pfs partition exceeds 4GB, use direct-scsi pfs (pfsds). For sfs it does not matter (i recently formatted 80GB drive as one pfs partition).