PFS/SFS

[wurzel]

ChrisH wrote:
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.

Which version of PFS are you referring to? IFAIK AFS was many, many years ago then became PFS. Then there was PFS2 & the final version, PFS3. I use PFS 3 with filenames 85 characters long (not the maximum) & I haven't had any problems.

The occasions I have had trouble, I can't remember what it was (so long ago) PFSDoctor fixed it. I've been using PFS3 for around 8 years & my miggy is on 24/7 (it's an answerphone/fax!)

[_yak_]

When I still had my Amiga I used PFS3 too on all my partitions. I was messing with my system quite hard (completly custom installation) and was pleasured with the performance and stability the PFS gave me. Great file system.

[pVC]

@Framiga

Any idea what exactly breaks it? There's wu-ftpd sources available, so anyone could fix it. But in any case, I feel quite suspicious to a filesystem, which can break like that with that many "standard" programs... (two commonly used programs are many for this kind fatal situation).

[Framiga]

unfortunately i'm not a coder. The only thing i can say is that was a Amigift core component (giftd the daemon IIRC) fault.

I could ask to the author as soon as i'll get him on the devel mailing list :-)

[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.

[Piru]

@ChrisH

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.

I frequently do this, and I've never had a single problem.

[Framiga]

@ChrisH

have you ever set the filenamesize option during the format?

FILENAMESIZE=FNSIZE

FILENAMESIZE=107 here

[Jope]

I also love PFS3 and use it on all my Amigas. Never a single byte lost due to it. Filenames set at 107. :-)

/me touches wood.

Where is directscsi support in SFS? Would make life a lot easier when trying to help people with +4GB problems.. :-)