13 April 2018, 16:25 | #261 |
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Negative buffers would be really bad idea, most likely it would break (at least cause bad display output) any program that change or display buffer value.. Including addbuffers.
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13 April 2018, 17:35 | #262 | |
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+1 for the automatic configuration based on ram then. Although... At what point does it make the decision? If you boot without fast but then AddMem some in, what should it do? The file system is presumably loaded by that point. |
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13 April 2018, 18:06 | #263 |
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Why not just set it and forget it at 30 and edit the .readme with any important details?
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14 April 2018, 00:31 | #264 | |
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I prefer such things to be well described in the documentation for the user to do the changes himself if needed instead of any automatic changes as it is impossible to know in advance if the setting was not set intentionally. (even if I know that exist users who don't read the manual - but at the end it's not the coder's fault if users don't read the manual.) I just think about it now while writing : - what about adding a check within pfsdoctor in order to inform about non-ideal parameters (only informing) ? Thus leaving the choice to the user to change the value or not. |
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I would say that a chip memory (0,5 - 2 MB) only system is positive low end. With some fast memory I would say it is still low end but you don't know how much memory is free for usage. E.g. on my OS3.1 install Avail says after boot that 10MB fast is in use out of 32MB. Do you know how many partitions are in use?
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14 April 2018, 22:45 | #266 |
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So who here, apart from Toni, knew already that default values of 30 buffers really means 150?
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Even in the "readme.txt" that was included in the pfs3aio.lha on aminet this information is not mentioned (VER: pfs3_aio.handler 18.5 (14.5.2014)). So except for digging a bit... Old PFS3_53 documentation mention a "sanity check" for a value between 70 and 600 (VER: Professional-File-System-II 18.5 PROFESSIONAL-VERSION (20.11.99) written by Michiel Pelt and copyright (c) 1999 GREat Effects Development). Personally I don't understand "sanity check" as an "automatic change". Hope it helps . Quote:
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I probably already answered this: 30 -> 150 is not pfs3aio introduced feature and I don't do documentation.
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Like max 2M total and max 2 partitions, preferably 1. Unexpanded system or 1/0.5 trap door with built-in IDE or some IDE only adapter. But it needs to be in normal mode when system has more RAM because these kinds of configurations are usually "read-only", move card to other system or PC, move data, then move card back and play whdload games. This is the target use case, nothing more. Quote:
Addmem is not my problem. (It is starting to sound this feature is not that useful and will be only used for wrong reasons) |
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For me as a simple end-user. Should I wait for a new update of PFS3AIO, or can I use the latest on aminet for setting up a new system?
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15 April 2018, 11:50 | #272 |
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You can use latest aminet version. Only functional difference in test version is: softlinks work (I never tested and no one probably uses those normally).
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Maybe change the name from pfs3aio to pfs3eab, lol
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I think softlinks were used by some of the GeekGadgets distributions, i have some half failing memory of struggling with non working links on ixemul/GG/SFS in the early 2000's....
I'm pretty sure nobody notices as nowadays everyone is just happy if gcc/binutils/make runs :-) |
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I'm pretty sure you could find someone to write up the documentation if they had access to all the info they needed to do so. All you'd have to do is include it in the distributed lha.
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A short readme would probably suffice, with the differences to the original outlined. The PFS3 documentation is already rather comprehensive.
As Toni said, he doesn't do documentation. Anyone is free to step up and read through any relevant forum threads, whip something together and offer it to Toni. |
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16 April 2018, 20:43 | #279 |
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What's the hurry in an already complete world, as we say around these parts.
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I use softlinks all the time, and it was a glorious day when ThoR fixed it for ram-handler, which allowed RAM:Disk.info to be a softlink to ENVARC:Sys/def_RAM.info so that saving icon position etc was saved to disk. OS4.1FE now uses this as the official method too.
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