Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!ucsd!ucsbcsl!comdesign!ivucsb!dan From: dan@ivucsb.UUCP (Dan Howell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: FFS on floppies Keywords: floppy, ffs, 1.3 Message-ID: <433@ivucsb.UUCP> Date: 7 Dec 88 00:37:05 GMT Organization: The Audio Club at UCSB, Isla Vista, California Lines: 22 Well, I finally got around to getting that ffsfloppy program from Unix to my Amiga. I followed the instructions and everything seems to work fine. Now to test ffs, I copied the entire c directory from workbench to my ffs disk. When I did a directory, I noticed no improvement. (6 seconds on ofs, 6 seconds on ffs). So what's the deal? Where's the marked increase in speed I'm supposed to get from ffs? I was thinking of converting over to ffs, (Note: I have no hard drive, just 2 floppies) but I'm not sure its worth the hassle, considering I can't boot off them. I was wondering, is anyone else running ffs on floppies and having a different experiences than me? Anyone found a way to make the hassle of having to boot off an ofs floppy minimal? Is there anyway to partition a floppy into a ofs bootable partition and a ffs partition? And how am I supposed to convice PC users that the Amiga is superior when directories are so much slower? :-) -- Dan Howell <...!pyramid!comdesign!ivucsb!dan>-- The Heineken Uncertainty Principle: -- You can never be sure how many beers you had last night.