PFS3 released on aminet

[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."

[Jose]

Thanks!

[A4000_Mad]

Thanks very much Michiel

:pint:

[MichielP]

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).

Good question. I guess I have to fix that :hammer:

[Crumb]

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

Indeed. Perhaps not exclusively AROS related but Toni Willen plans to adapt PFS3 to make it compatible with AmigaOS1.3.

[Claw22000]

Good question. I guess I have to fix that :hammer:

I just want to say thanks so much for your awesome donation to the community.  I really wish there was more educated programers like yourself resurfacing to aid the community.

[marmot64]

Thanks a lot for this fine piece of software!

[actung_bab]

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

Michiel Pelt
author of PFS3

Thank you very kind really looking to trying for first time

[Dwyloc]

Indeed. Perhaps not exclusively AROS related but Toni Willen plans to adapt PFS3 to make it compatible with AmigaOS1.3.

Very cool.  :-)

It would also be nice for us users with far more limited Amiga's if a version
with a lower memory foot print could be created  PFS3 150K memory requirement is just too high to be useful on a Minimig with only 1.5M (or my 1MB A500 with external HD) of usable but a version with a similar memory foot print to FFS would be very useful if it PFS3 could be slimmed down a bit.

[MichielP]

Very cool.  :-)

It would also be nice for us users with far more limited Amiga's if a version
with a lower memory foot print could be created  PFS3 150K memory requirement is just too high to be useful on a Minimig with only 1.5M (or my 1MB A500 with external HD) of usable but a version with a similar memory foot print to FFS would be very useful if it PFS3 could be slimmed down a bit.

Increasing the maximum partition size and file size also increases the memory footprint. PFS already what is called internally as smallmode which is used if the partition is 4G or smaller. Smallmode has a smaller memory footprint. Perhaps we can reduce it further. However, PFS will always need more than FFS to be able to do the atomic commit scheme.

[LoadWB]

Good question. I guess I have to fix that :hammer:

Regarding the 5.3 patch requesting the CD and a serial.  I have been able to circumvent the CD request by assigning PFS3: to the directory in which the PFS3 installer is extracted (ie RAM:pfs3,) but I cannot circumvent the serial request.

Any fix to this, yet?

[mfilos]

Not yet LoadWB. Assign was easy but spatch can't patch the L: files and C: PFSDoctor.
Tried them even manually but didn't work.
Even if you supply a valid Key it still doesn't patch it (cause I guess it needs to find the same Key in the original unpatched files).

Michiel said that he have to fix that (some posts back

[MickJT]

If anyone is interested. I have a modified spatch from years ago that doesn't do CRC checking.

Would be a bad idea to put it on Aminet though.

This might be able to patch PFS3 but i'm just going to guess here that since it'd be patching something likely built with a different compiling environment (no matter how insignificant the difference might be) and slightly changed sources, that the result would just be garbage.

[MichielP]

If anyone is interested. I have a modified spatch from years ago that doesn't do CRC checking.

Would be a bad idea to put it on Aminet though.

This might be able to patch PFS3 but i'm just going to guess here that since it'd be patching something likely built with a different compiling environment (no matter how insignificant the difference might be) and slightly changed sources, that the result would just be garbage.

This might work. The reason spatch doesn't work is that the binaries on the Aminet release are already registered with a registration number. The patches are from the unregistered binaries from the CD. So the binaries differ and so the CRCs differ. But if you use your non-checking spatch and be very careful to apply the right patch to the right file it might just work.

You can also hold on and wait - I will post updated binaries, the complete package, not a patch, in a few days.

Michiel