What filesystemsare folks using on A1

[FluffyMcDeath]

I have 2 FFS partitions and I guess FFS is still 30 character file names because that's where names seem to get truncated. Very annoying with my mp3s.

So I'm thinking I'll chage over to SFS for PPC. Anyone using that, and what version.

[FluffyMcDeath]

Oooooooh.
Interesting. I'll have to try that.

Do you know what other differences there are between these version?

[FluffyMcDeath]

Well, I like SFS and was running an old version on my 4000 for years and so, Lo! there is a PPC SFS sitting right on my system drive.
Just for fun I split my old FFS partition into one FFS DOS\7 and one SFS\0 (after looking up S and F in the handy ascii table. You SHOULD just be able to type it as SFS\0)

So I'm restoring the stuff I had moved from the old partition and some of it is on a PC on my network.
I copy a directory from the pc to the SFS partition and the directory icon appears right away, then nothing else happens.

"Oh oh" thinks I, something's gone wrong. I open up th edirectory on the SFS partition and it's fine and full of all the stuff that should be there. Interesting.
So then I copy 120 MB of ren & stimpy from the PC to SFS. This time the %done box comes up, but the transfer is flyin'! Wow. Then I drag the same file to the FFS partition.
Chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug.... I give up.

So, all those folks who I've heard complaining about how slow network transfers are ... it's your filesystem!!