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Gareth Knight
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I am looking for a new, free file system for use with my Amiga hard drive. What options are available?

The choice of a free file system restricts your choice, excluding the fantastic commercial PFS2 (formerly AFS) system. Fortunately, it is possible with three choices being available to the bargain hunter.

Professional Filing System.

A two year old limited product. It is faster than FFS but does not allow formatting of larger drives. It was produced as the commercial Ami-File Safe, and has recently been released under the original title. The most glaring problem is the lack of recovery utilities yet available. Whilst it is very difficult to corrupt a partition, when it is corrupted it is difficult to get it back.

L:FastFileSystem, FS 43.19 ( 7.Nov.97)

An update to the standard Amiga file system from Amiga International that supports hard disks larger than 4GB partitions.
The best thing about FastFileSystem is the amount of support from 3rd party software. It is available at http://www.amiga.de/.

SmartFileSystem.

A new filing system that is currently in beta that appears extremely impressive. It includes support for 254 character file names. It also includes the .deldir directory present in PFS and PFS2, allowing the retrieval of deleted files. The disadvantage is that, like PFS, SFS have no tools to repair your HD if you have a hard drive crash.

 

 



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