PFS Vs SFS Which is better.

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Looking into docs for PFS I no longer understand why any AMIGA user would not want to use this file system.
Ok, that's not fair, use whatever you want to.

But PFS supports over the 4 gig barrier etc and won't corrupt files even in the middle of writing ie it doesn't update the witten to pointer until the file has been completly written to the drive then points to it so, no lost data. this even kicks NTFS, or LINUX  in the head. Linux still need validation on crashes.

Anyway, I would like to know if anyone has thoughts as to SFS as i haven't tried this filesystem yet and I know it may be hard to get PFS now. Is SFS better than PFS?

Still, PFS,  what a great filesystem

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That's so weird. I have run PFS2 since it came out and migrated to 3 . I run both versions ie the ds version (direct SCSI) and the normal for IDE drives and both CPU options ie 68020 and 68040 and I have never had a problem. the only thing I have ever had to do was correctly size up my "rollover file" I run a 1200 and 4k

I have also used the PFS recovery tools when incorectly deleting files.

The only time I have heard of PFS crashing is under 3.0 when the mask and max transfer values were set incorrectly. But the values for these settings are in the docs.

Really strange. Must be going on 10 years for using the filesystem. Not bad odds for me and no invlaid disk in that time period.

Anyway, I just wanted to know if this SFS has any improvement over PFS as there's not a lot of info in the SFS docs.

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No, PFS is not free. I registered a long time ago. I was hoping it would continue to be updated but I don't think it has been touched in quite a number of years now.

The reason I asked about SFs is because SFS is another filesystem. One which I have very little to do with and with limited documentation. It sounds as though not too many people know of any differences between the two FS but that sfs may be slower. As for Linux compatibility, I'm sure there's a FFS compilation for it.  Even tools for Windows users to look inside a FFS hard disk. Still, if you wanted to run Linux, wouldn't you use Linux filesystem? if you needed anthing AMIGA you could always run UAE.

Anyway, for my AMIGA, PFS is very quick and get's over the Gig problems for now. It's a shame it's hard to find now, I'm sure AMIGA users would be interested if it was available on AMINET. I hope AI (or whoever is setting the standards for AMIGA OS) make the new FFS to be as good as this FS seems to be.