| From: | Bob Rickman |
| Date: | 28 May 2001 at 09:19:25 |
| Subject: | Re: PFS3 |
This is a reply to a message from Andrew Crowe.
Subject: [amigactive] Re: PFS3:
Hi Andrew,
On 27-May-01, Andrew Crowe wrote:
> I have Mask: 0x7FFFFFFF and Max Transfer: 0x00FFFFFF , but I think
>>> it depends on each setup.
>>> I had a few problems at the beggining with this settings but never
>>> had that message...
>> Used above settings successfully but am concerned about loss of
>> space. 500mb available on FFS reduced to around 472mb just through
>> using PFS3, seems ridiculous. That's around 6% unavailable.
> You're not really losing any space, you may actually me /gaining/
> space on the harddisk.
>
> The reason for this size difference is that PFS allocates all the
> filespace for filenames/dir structures when you format it, while FFS
> saves it when writing files.
>
> IIRC PFS also uses less space for the file system structures, so if
> you tried to copy 500megs of FFS files over you'd probably be left
> with more free space at the end of it.
Thanks for the explanation. Don't get me wrong, I am happy enough about this
if it is normal. Just concerned that I was doing something wrong to make
this apparent loss greater than necessary.
Regards,
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