filesystems for internet

[amiga4001]

Was looking at my setup and noticed a newer filesystem(fs 45.9) instead of my 45.13 original installed with os 3.9.
I want to get higher rates/seeektimes on the partition which I use for internet.For caching that is of Ibrowse.
As it will crash so now and then it has to be really reliable and fast with little files.
Any advice?

[Lemonty]

Isn't 45.13 newer than 45.9? Anyway, you might try SFS filesystem or PFS. Increasing your partition's buffersize will  also help as will installing some cache system (hypercache or similar system).

Good luck.

[Ilwrath]

Yeah, I think it's actually an older version of the filesystem, as well.

Many times the format is:
version.revision
not:
floating point version

Therefore, 45.13 newer than 45.9 - Pretend there's a zero there, and it makes more sense...  45.13 > 45.09  :-)

[Doobrey]

There`s an unofficial patch on aminet to bring it to 45.14
http://main.aminet.net/package.php?package=biz/patch/FFS4514p.lha

[Lemonty]

Changing the FastFileSystem from one revision to a newer one will not make your harddisk noticeably faster (it may improve reliability though). If your controller is a standard IDE job (found in A1200 and A4000) then the maximum performance would be around 3 Mb/s. Even fast IDE harddisks will stop at that maximum when attached to them.
Solution: Get yourself a fast IDE controller or an CPU expansion card with a SCSI controller on it and attach a fast disk to that.
SCSI-3 controllers are found on CyberstormIII cards and are currently the fastest around for classic Amigas. They give a maximum performance of 40 Mb/s. Get a harddisk to match and you're off!

[Framiga]

If you want a fast and reliable diskcache partition, download SFS

Create a 100MB partition

If you have enough RAM:

dosbuffers 512

blocksize 512 bytes (always with SFS)

when you will format the SFS partition, format it WITHOUT the recycled dir

SFSFormat DEVICE YOURPART: NAME POO NORECYCLED

Then you can gain the performances, using SFSConfig (it eats some memory)

i.e

SFSConfig <>NIL: DeviceNameOfYourPartition: 32 32768 107 60 2 COPYBACK

where 32 and 32768 are the cachelines used (try other values as well) max 100 32768

NOTE- the settings made with SFSConfig, are not permanent.

Type it in a shell and test. When you have found the better performances, slap the line in UserStartup.