PFS/SFS

[pVC]

I haven't made good enough tests, but for "real life use" SFS feels faster IMHO. And I think PFS only supports 512 blocksize, so if you handle lots of big files, you might want bigger blocksizes with SFS. But anyway, choosing between SFS and PFS3 is pretty much in your feelings They're both quite similar with features. Most notable differences are that PFS3 has better repairing tools, but SFS is free.

I have both PFS3 and SFS partitions on Amiga(s) and on Pegasos. Both have worked fine. Usually I prefer SFS with 1024 bytes blocksize.

[pVC]

Yeah, well.. fragmentation is a problem if you don't pay attention to it Better not to download several movies at once etc.. or at least download them to separate temp partition and copy them one at once to final destination. When you're aware it, it's pretty easy to keep partitions non fragmented. But booting, scanning and using non fragmented partition feels faster (IMHO).

I haven't had problems with big amounts of data. I've copied several times over 100G batches without problems over the years and systems.

Filesystem errors I've got similar amount on PFS3 and SFS.. not too often on either. Couple times over the 10 years... with PFS3 it usually can be fixed with pfsdoctor/diskvalid, but SFS needs reformatting. On Pegasos I haven't got any.. so it might have been because of kludgy & patched up a1200 too

[pVC]

Hmmm... I don't know if one problem on PFS was because of long filenames or what, but resulting corruption of current dir or whole disk sounds familiar.

I had reproduceable problem with wu-ftpd and PFS3 on my A1200. If I tried to write stuff with ftp to place which wasn't allowed to write, the PFS flipped completely and messed up dirs. Same didn't happen on SFS.

[pVC]

@Framiga

Any idea what exactly breaks it? There's wu-ftpd sources available, so anyone could fix it. But in any case, I feel quite suspicious to a filesystem, which can break like that with that many "standard" programs... (two commonly used programs are many for this kind fatal situation).