IceFileSystem 1.13 released (MorphOS)

[Golem!dk]

Why are you even replying? I'm not here for a meta discussion about how one is not allowed to question or criticise anything in the MorphOS camp

I see, and how does thise relate to the discussion at hand?

- this is about a new filesystem and what consequences this new filesystem poses for the amiga platforms.

Yes, I responded to that.

As for "to be released", please read more carefully, I was not writing about this release, I was writing about it being released as "freeware".

Yes, very important right now, I can see that... seems 19 people registered so far.

[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.

[kolla]

You can (and should) always stick to FFS or SFS if you need a mobile HD.

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.

[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).

[kolla]

Ah, you mean filesystem which would be available to everyone.

One that at least has a clearly outlined future.

[Golem!dk]

The author issued a warning concerning the current release.

A bug has been found in version 1.13 that can cause the latest modifications to disk to be lost.. This will be fixed for next version, along with other minor bugs. Next version will come soon.

[yakumo9275]

gee, I guess there was a lot of testing done before public release

[persia]

ZFS, we want ZFS!!!

[Golem!dk]

ZFS, we want ZFS!!!

How?

[Golem!dk]

Version 1.14 is now available.

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 1.14 (2010-August-22)
     Softlink bug (owner,protection,size,date wrong for ExAll), fixed.
     Softlink bug regarding inline expansion fixed.
     Many improvements and fixes to caching system.
     Using 32K blocksize did not work correctly, fixed.
     (IceFilesytem works great with 512 though :)
     Problem with SimpleMail fixed. (action_create_dir() returned wrong error code)
     Recycledir fixes.