Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.

Author Topic: FFS vs PFS vs SFS?  (Read 4336 times)

Description:

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline LoadWB

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Join Date: Jul 2006
  • Posts: 2901
  • Country: 00
    • Show all replies
Re: FFS vs PFS vs SFS?
« on: September 10, 2012, 04:26:15 AM »
FWIW, to my recollection I've never had a problem with SFS.  I started using it when my YAM email folders would take for-frikken-ever to open on an FFS-formatted volume.  SFS sped this up dramatically.  I did some testing with PFS when it went PD and found that it is even faster than SFS for the same tasks.

As for PFS, in another thread I talked about lessons and observations moving a 10GB volume from SFS to PFS.  I ran into a problem restoring the files from my lha backup and it turned out the volume had two corrupted directory entries.  Fixed them with PFSDoctor and everything's been smooth, since.  I never had this happen on my SFS volumes when moving from FFS.

I still have an SFS volume on this drive that I may very well leave alone, if only to see if it ever dies.  It's not an active volume in the sense of regular read-write usage: it houses a lot of WHDLoad games and various programs I don't want borking up my system drive.  All-in-all, PFS3 is already proving itself to me as a performance winner and I may re-do my boot partition with PFS3 instead of FFS v45.15 current running on it.