| From: | Duncan Gibb |
| Date: | 14 May 2000 at 00:04:17 |
| Subject: | Re: PFS2 - 3 Upgrade (Long) |
On 13-May-00, tim@ramjam.u-net.com wrote:
t> The space isn't taken by the .deldir directory, it's taken by PFS3's
t> internal directory blocks. PFS3 allocates these at format time, while
t> FFS allocates them as it needs them. Although it may seem that the
t> PFS3 partiton is smaller as a result, it will actually hold more data
t> as the directory structure is more space efficient.
Hmmm.... I'm sceptical about this. I recent-ishly migrated my A4000 from
FFS to PFS3. It has several 768MB partitions (a convenient size for burning
CDs). One was very nearly full when I migrated it. I "copy clone"d all the
files onto another FFS partition of the same size, did the PFS3 biz and
tried to copy everything back. The files didn't fit.
I conclude that PFS3 not only looks like it uses more space (711MB 768MB
partitions), but actually does. Still, it doesn't whinge for ages if
Voyager crashes while writing its cache files, allows proper filenames, and
deletes ISO images very quickly.
It's good.
Duncan
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