This is a good topic. I have played with AMIGA filesystems for many years now. I always wanted to know why people use SFS over PFS3.
I went and registered PFS3 some time ago, but my originals became corrupted so now my 1200 is the only miggy that runs PFS3. It is supposed to be highly optimized in coding and it has it's own varients for drivers eg. compiled versions for 68020, 030, 040, 060 CPUs
I read a lot of posts on how good SFS was, but not a great deal of info. There is some very detailed documentation on how and why PFS3 works, it also is semi smart, as in will try not to fragment when read and writing. It also won't update file structure pointers untill it has completed writing, so it won't invalidate disks, and PFS3 is also very good at parallel tasking, or simultanius reads/writes because of a very efficent cache system. To optimize under PFS3 (if you ever neded too) would be simply copying files from one partitian to another. The Filesystem defrags on the fly.
I was hoping to hear OS4 had bought rights to this software or it had become GPLed but alas, like so many other great programs, it has just dissapeared.
Is SFS better and how? PFS3 is a very good filesystem, I like it better than the Linux filesystem, no long validates etc.. would love to see a G3,4 port of PFS3.
Oh, and if anyone knows where I can get the binaries, would be good, I can than put it back on my 4000 with the 040 version and not the 020 one currently running
