SFS cant find key errors?

[itix]

Old SFS versions may randomly trash its internal data structures. Try to find newer version and repair your existing partition or reformat.

[itix]

I am sure your CF card is fine. Old 68k SFS has a bug where it trashes its journaling system when writing to multiple files simulatenously. It is extremely rare but it does happen. Luckily you dont lose any data but just have unwritable partition and certainly it is less hassle than FFS.

It has happened to me on my A1200, and it happened to me on my Pegasos until SFS was fixed.

[itix]

@itix: im not sure if this is the same as the problems i have experienced, have you ever used strohmayers versions?

Hell, no.

[itix]

@itix
well then, i guess you have missed some fun. just look over at aw.net, currently two guys independently have lost theis sfs partitions under os4 yesterday. i dont mention the third who cant see his hd anymore, because its likely a different issue. threads about sfs crashes appear quite on regular basis while i didnt observe similar about the other file systems. in comparison i would say, except for annoying validation orgies, ffs is quite dependable. at least i cant recall any issues.

There is one: it is very slow when scanning large directories and files.

[itix]

@itix, you mean ffs? well right, it isnt fast of course, ive never meant that. but its reliable even though revalidation sounds scary and keeps the machine from booting, which might lead to premature conclusion that the drive is broken. first time it happened to me i restarted the machine multiple times while the process because i couldnt understand whats going on. but it easily survives that.

It is just that validating my 2GB partition on my Amiga 1200 (040, internal IDE) took forever to complete. I cant wait 8 hours to use my Amiga again.

i can also remember thomas richter told us on natami forum that ffs was actually smarter than sfs. dont remember why though, something like multithreaded or the like.

Not necessarily "smarter" but as I have understood FFS is better at handling simultaneous read/write requests (not using by threads but some internal mechanism). Real time applications are not starving due to other application getting all attention from the filesystem.