PFS/SFS

[ChrisH]

I used to be a big fan of PFS (and before when it was called AFS), but eventually ditched it (last year) for SFS because PFS's support for long file names is terminally broken - using long file names can corrupt the current folder or even the whole disk.  I haven't looked back since :-)

Oh, and yes, I did have PFS set-up correctly.  There was a lot of discussion about how to do it correctly, from when it was still called AFS, and it worked fantastically well apart from the long file name problem.

[ChrisH]

My problem with long file names was definitely present in PFS 3 & PFS 2, and probably before then as well.  It definitely occured under OS3.9.2 with Amithlon (with SCSI disks) & WinUAE (with direct access to IDE disks), and probably on my Blizzard PPC A1200 too.

The easiest way to cause the problem was to get AmiNetRadio to make some recordings to disk, which creates MP3s typically with ridiculously long filenames (depending on radio station).  Unless I did it to RAM disk there would frequently be problems.