PFS3 released on aminet

[Piru]

It is good to see there are some people interested in extending PFS and bugfixing. The potential problem of separate incompatible PFS versions has been raised. How about collaborating - enhance PFS together instead of spreading our efforts into subprojects. I could set up a public domain source repository. Github perhaps, or something similar.

Please note that this only makes sense to me if there are at least some people intending to participate. Please let met know.

Michiel

I would be very interested to participate. Years ago I already did some (private) binary patch to PFS3 to avoid certain "beta warning requester" that would pop up if large amounts of changes were committed to the FS (for instance if you deleted more than 1GB of data in a one go you'd easily get this requester). I did this by raising some buffer size. It raised the memory usage but made it possible to delete large amounts (tens of GBs) without any issues. (quick search: It appears to be that ResToBeFreed /* this should never happen */ does happen in some cases Anyhoo now I can see that my patch modified RTBF_CACHE_SIZE for the allocation and the comparison.)

Also I've already mentioned the resethandler improvement I'd like to add. Additionally I'd like to include support for the MorphOS 64bit dospacket interface (even though the FS itself only supports 32bit file sizes so far).

Also improvements to softlink support would be nice thing to have. At least making it work closer to how FFS works.

However, I'll be able to work on this may the earliest.

[ChaosLord]

@Admins
I was noticing the same thing that Nicholas noticed.

[Dwyloc]

Good news: I just uploaded PFS3 and sources to Aminet.
Enjoy!

Michiel Pelt
author of PFS3

Thanks for releasing PFS3 for free.

I just thought I would post and let you know that its not just the classic and next gen OS4/MorphOS users that are interested in using PFS, us next gen 68k users with our FPGA amigas such as the Minimig are also interested.

I have just tested it on my 68000 Minimig and it makes a very noticeable speed increase when using it with my stock 2MB Minimig and unlike SFS I can use it as it does not need an 020 or higher.  

Sadly the stock Minimig only has 1.5MB of usable ram after loading kickstart so PFS3 300K memory usage is a bit limiting, but on my 4MB minimig and newer FPGA amiga re-implementations I am sure this will be far less of an issue.

Thanks again for all the hard work  :-)

[nicholas]

@Admins
I was noticing the same thing that Nicholas noticed.

It's still not showing. :/

[zipper]

Has been several hours:
http://aminet.net/disk/misc/PFS3.lha

[Calgor]

Information from the Readmes:

The binary version in the release is PFS3 V5.1 (with some changes for public domain release) - you need the patch also available on Aminet to update it to V5.3.

Also the sources are for PFS3 V5.2 (with some changes for public domain release).

@MichielP

Thanks heaps for this release!!!

I guess you could not find/extract the sources for PFS3 V5.3?  Will any of those bugs fixed as described in the V5.3 patch readme have to be refixed in the source?

[Karlos]

@Admins

This GENUINE "Amiga news" doesn't show up at the top of the home page, yet drivel from CUSA recently did.

Problem?

*bump test*

-edit-

Shows up in the news section on the front page, but not the recent threads. Wonder if it's an either/or thing...

[motrucker]

This is honestly great news. Thank you so much.
I had just finished the photos of my A1000 system to put it up for sale. I guess I'll re-think that move.

[Darrin]

Thank you Michiel.  I'll give it a whirl on my A4000.

[Crumb]

Thank you Michiel!!! Lots of thanks!

[wizard66]

Thanks for this nice software release.
I'm trying to upgrade from v5.1 to 5.3 but it's asking for the cd??
How can I upgrade to v.5.3 ?

I want to install this nice pice of software in my new FPGA Replayboard (i'm installing now).

[gertsy]

Michiel, Ma Belle...

WD

[MichielP]

I just put PFS on sourceforge. See the new thread I created for this.

[Gulliver]

I just put PFS on sourceforge. See the new thread I created for this.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pfs-amiga/

[kas1e]

@Piru
If you doesn't mind, plz, ifdefs all morphos-only specific changes (such as you mention "Additionally I'd like to include support for the MorphOS 64bit dospacket interface (even though the FS itself only supports 32bit file sizes so far"). All the other changes i think should be usable on both oses with no problems.

[Piru]

@Piru
If you doesn't mind, plz, ifdefs all morphos-only specific changes (such as you mention "Additionally I'd like to include support for the MorphOS 64bit dospacket interface (even though the FS itself only supports 32bit file sizes so far"). All the other changes i think should be usable on both oses with no problems.

Not both, but all. I am fairly sure AROS guys are interested as well.

And of course all OS specific changes must not break other builds. As I said elsewhere: "I propose that anyone committing changes must always make sure that the 68k version still builds with the changes."