PFS3 is soon to become free and opensource

[TheGoose]

Please straighten me out about non FFS files systems. They are:

1. not in ROM (obvious)
2. must be installed / created on the harddrive they will rule.

That right?

[TheGoose]

1. Correct
2. They can either be installed in the RDB of the HD or placed in the L directory
 

Thanks Franko.

Those facts have always kept me away from SFS and the like. If the new ROMs project will work with traditional AOS 3.x it would be very cool to have this built-in.

[TheGoose]

FS on the hard drive just seems volatile to me. Simply, harddrives are corruptible. When it starts to go bad the whole thing just becomes a black hole. Well, I know I have been through that, power cut offs, harddrive is messed up.

[TheGoose]

How are the hard drives not corruptible with the FS in the ROM? I find this fear irrational. It makes no difference whether the FS is in the ROM or the drive.

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I didn't say that did I? They are always corruptible. It's more a question of what would be worse? A HD with a corruption that affected the FS (stored on the disk). If that happens how do you go about fixing it or just recovering anything off of it, with no FS available?

And maybe you can answer this, how often is a FS stored on disk accessed as the machine does regular CRUD operations? Or is it moved into memory?

I'm trying to tease out Piru, what is/are the disadvantages of a FS on disk. You can't think of any?

[TheGoose]

Ah, all answered above. Guess I'd feel more confident if my HD in my A3000 wasn't 20+ years old too....:lol:

[TheGoose]

BTW, I wanted PFS3 in rom thinking on the possibility of booting from a PF3 floppy.

Hmm, does a PFS formatted floppy hold anymore than 880K?