Tinkering with PFS3

[Romanujan]

!!! DANGER WILL ROBINSON !!!

This is a filesystem handler. One of the most important pieces of software in your AmigaOS, in which every bug can easily lead to data loss. Or data damage, which might not be visible at first. And someone who never coded for AmigaOS before was tampering with it - if you don't understand what this could mean, leave this thread immediately and don't even try to download the attachment.

So: DON'T USE IT ON ANY SYSTEM, WHICH STORES VALUABLE DATA! DO BACKUPS!

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OK, so what do we have here?

- PFS3 AllInOne handler - english, french, german, italian, and polish (both AmigaPL and ISO 8859-2) builds available
- contains development done by Toni Willen and others (build is based on the latest AROS SVN tree), with some small tweaks made by me (see the readme file inside the archive)
- compiled using GCC 4.6 (6.3 compilation is possible, but is not stable on OS4)

This does not fully replace Toni Willen build http://aminet.net/package/disk/misc/pfs3aio (there is no 'custom' handler included) - I did this one to fulfill solely my needs


New in 17.06.2017 (see readme in the archive for previous changes)
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- merged upstream update from 13.03.2017 (variable initialization fixes)
- HiDensity device driver is now recognized as floppy device


KNOWN BUGS
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- Wrong Index Block ID bug: http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=71423


Q&A
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- When will the new version come?
- I don't know, I don't spend much time on the Amiga. Got other fascinating hobbies too

- Will this be eventually merged with AROS source tree?
- I don't know. I'm tweaking this software to my needs, which might not fulfill AROS team ideas. Besides, I'm not going to spend time testing this with AROS.

[Retrofan]

That's great, but I will wait that Toni or Thomas try it first

Thanks for working on it.

[HanSolo]

Is it possible to create polish version of pfs3aio ? Messages are translated and attached.

[Romanujan]

Not a problem - but:

1. Two strings are left untranslated:

AFS_ERROR_DOSLIST_ADD
AFS_ERROR_EX_NEXT_FAIL

Could you translate them also? I have never used polish translation and AmigaPL codeset.

2. Why brackets in AFS_ERROR_UNSLEEP?

[idrougge]

What were your needs that the Aminet version didn't fulfill?

[Romanujan]

My goal is to have MultiUser support with AlInOne features (minus the Kickstart 1.3 support - makes no sense, as the MultiUser requires OS 2.0).

[HanSolo]

Originally Posted by Romanujan

Not a problem - but:

1. Two strings are left untranslated:

AFS_ERROR_DOSLIST_ADD
AFS_ERROR_EX_NEXT_FAIL

Could you translate them also? I have never used polish translation and AmigaPL codeset.

2. Why brackets in AFS_ERROR_UNSLEEP?

1. I translated missing strings.
2. I using this to mark function for example ()CopyMemQuick I removed the brackets.
All text is in ISO-8859 format so if psf3 require font like topaz please use iso-topazPL instead.

[Romanujan]

New build added to the first post, includes polish localized versions (both ISO 8859-2 and AmigaPL). BTW. akrywność -> aktywność

The handler never explicitly asks for the topaz font, I guess it uses the default one. If you know the reproducible use case when handler displays something with wrong font, let me know - we will see what can be done.

I have tested GCC 4.6 vs GCC 6.3 build - the 6.3 produces smaller binary, but the 4.6 build is very slightly faster (per average 2-3%). Given that the build is done with -Os (compiler is asked to produce small binary, at the cost of some performance), we can hardly blame the compiler.

Unfortunately, I have found the first bug


[edit] Bug seems to have been GCC 6.3 issue - switched back to GCC 4.6.

[fgh]

Cool. Feel free to bugfix or figure out those 'wrong index block id' issues people are having with pfs3aio

[Toni Wilen]

Thats the problem that needs to be 100% duplicated and fixed before larger partition sizes can become officially supported.