IceFileSystem 1.13 released (MorphOS)

[itix]

Just what the world need, another custom, proprietary, non-free filesystem that need exotic hardware and operating system for data retrieval. Congrats with that.

If you think Mac hardware is exotic I cant help you =P And of course nobody is forcing you to use it. You can use exotic SFS or FFS supported nowhere but on exotic hardware and operating system for data retrieval. Non-Amiga filesystems are not often suitable for Amiga use due to lack of filecomments, protection bits or case insensitivity.

[itix]

How many FSs are there for MorphOS?  And if this one is as good as it says, why not?  A lot of people bought PFS and still swear by it.

PFS, SFS, FFS, EXT2, NTFS, SgiXFS, HFS, FAT and now IceFS.

[itix]

And all of the above, with one exception, can be read using any random PC, mac or whatever without much cost or hassle involved.

I wouldnt bother. Your HD could die any day. If you have important data stored on your hard disk you should always make backups. My sources are stored on another machine on SVN or CVS.

No need to play stupid, sir. You can (and should) always stick to FFS or SFS if you need a mobile HD.

[itix]

Just a few notes then
* One can now store more data than it is comfortable to make backups of on a morphos machine, yay

Sir, you can always split your HD to smaller partitions. I wouldnt recommend using huge partitions on Amiga.

* If said machine has a malfunction one can not comfortably retrieve the data on another machine, since that machine also would have to be one with registered morphos and icefs on (or, you can do copying for 30 minutes, then reboot, continue etc. if you really need to)
* The filesystem is not mountable or anything from any other OS (as of yet anyhow, when/what and under what iicense is the author "open" to develop for?)

Sir, you can always use other filesystems if mobility is important to you. Ddo you really think that when there is new software everyone go use just because it is possible? Sir, I dont think so. Obviously not many are willing to reformat their HD only to try new FS and of course due to lack of RDB on Macs makes it impossible to boot system from it.

[itix]

Why? Those have all kinds of quirks and old limitations.

What I'm saying is that it's great we finally have a new amiga centric filesystem, but too bad that it (IMO) comes with a big pile of "what if"s and uncertainties.

Ah, you mean filesystem which would be available to everyone (or at least have a 68k version).