What filesystemsare folks using on A1

[FluffyMcDeath]

I have 2 FFS partitions and I guess FFS is still 30 character file names because that's where names seem to get truncated. Very annoying with my mp3s.

So I'm thinking I'll chage over to SFS for PPC. Anyone using that, and what version.

[PulsatingQuasar]

Then you have formatted your partitions with the wrong version of FFS. In MediaToolBox, for a partition, select "Select filesystem/Edit Details"

You then probably have selected International which is DOS\03. You should select Long Filenames which is DOS\07.

Don't forget that you'll loose the data on your partitions and have reformat if you do change the mode FFS is working in.

[FluffyMcDeath]

Oooooooh.
Interesting. I'll have to try that.

Do you know what other differences there are between these version?

[KennyR]

FFS2 supplied with OS4 and MorphOS has long filename support with dostypes DOS\06 and DOS\07. That's about the only major change from a user POV.

But, my advice: forget FFS. It's slow and will invalidate if you crash or reboot writing to disk. Use SFS, or if it works on OS4, PFS. You should probably leave your boot partition in FFS though, not sure if UBoot can boot from SFS...

[ikir]

FFS here.... follow the installation guide for OS4, all these things are covered :-)
www.os4.co.uk

[FluffyMcDeath]

Well, I like SFS and was running an old version on my 4000 for years and so, Lo! there is a PPC SFS sitting right on my system drive.
Just for fun I split my old FFS partition into one FFS DOS\7 and one SFS\0 (after looking up S and F in the handy ascii table. You SHOULD just be able to type it as SFS\0)

So I'm restoring the stuff I had moved from the old partition and some of it is on a PC on my network.
I copy a directory from the pc to the SFS partition and the directory icon appears right away, then nothing else happens.

"Oh oh" thinks I, something's gone wrong. I open up th edirectory on the SFS partition and it's fine and full of all the stuff that should be there. Interesting.
So then I copy 120 MB of ren & stimpy from the PC to SFS. This time the %done box comes up, but the transfer is flyin'! Wow. Then I drag the same file to the FFS partition.
Chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug.... I give up.

So, all those folks who I've heard complaining about how slow network transfers are ... it's your filesystem!!

[PulsatingQuasar]

There is a cache plugin in the Tools directory which makes the transfers go faster.

Then there is another command( I have forgotten it right now) which makes FFS2 behave like FFS1 which results in more speed.

The standard operatingmode of FFS2 is paranoid. It will constantly write the cache to disk so the filesystem won't get corrupted and you will loose data when the power fails.

I'm told that is one of the big differences with an OS like Windows. That OS doesn't flush the cache to disk untill you choose to shutdown the system and thats why a disk validation allways has to be done to make shure everything went fine when the system came down.