Because any access to a directory with more than around 1000 files in it on an FFS partition is seriously slow. Try it for yourself.imagodespira wrote:@kas1e: why should it load 10-20 seconds?
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Niels
Because any access to a directory with more than around 1000 files in it on an FFS partition is seriously slow. Try it for yourself.imagodespira wrote:@kas1e: why should it load 10-20 seconds?
... but only if you want to acces the directory with the workbench/filer etc. If you are coding you just pick the one file name you need. I think no one needs to look at all the 4000 images directly in the drawer, try "AISSview" in OS4Depot, this i use to pick my wanted icons for loading it later in our software.... it is fastnbache wrote:Because any access to a directory with more than around 1000 files in it on an FFS partition is seriously slow. Try it for yourself.imagodespira wrote:@kas1e: why should it load 10-20 seconds?
Best regards,
Niels
I used to use FFS for my boot partition, and still have the old partition hanging around with AISS installed on it. there are 2605 files. If you pick individual files out then they load at the speed you'd expect (ie. exactly the same speed as they do from any small directory). Getting a list of the files in ASL takes as long as you'd expect too (ie. annoyingly longer than the amount of time it takes to see the file you want and not be able to select it because the requester is updating constantly). I see no difference in these between FFS and SFS (and, if I could boot off JXFS, I'd expect exactly the same there too).imagodespira wrote:... but only if you want to acces the directory with the workbench/filer etc. If you are coding you just pick the one file name you need. I think no one needs to look at all the 4000 images directly in the drawer, try "AISSview" in OS4Depot, this i use to pick my wanted icons for loading it later in our software.... it is fast
maybe shouldn't , but it is reality with which i meet and what was seriously suck for my first meet with aos4 (the same as it can be for other newbes if we will now put whole aiss without thinking about how to make it all good and cover all the problems).@kas1e: why should it load 10-20 seconds?
Coding theory are good, but reality is it : many of our aiss based apps suck hard when whole aiss set on FFS. Why it happens : i not so know, but i assume that FFS just suck and does not matter if you get one file, or another without scanning. Maybe ffs do some caching of some things, maybe anything else which slow things down. I do not know. But what i know for sure, is that current apps which are on os4depot (and even some which in contribs to os4), will suck some omiga1200 if your boot fs are FFS, and you istall on the same boot-ffs-partition whole aiss set.but only if you want to acces the directory with the workbench/filer etc. If you are coding you just pick the one file name you need. I think no one needs to look at all the 4000 images directly in the drawer, try "AISSview" in OS4Depot, this i use to pick my wanted icons for loading it later in our software.... it is fast
Pretty possible in FFS, yes. But no one will fix it as it low priority or maybe will be abandoned do not know. But what i know for sure, if we will put whole AISS as it is now to FFS, it will give users a problems. Fixes only 2 : remove FFS totally from os (or fix it, or whatever to do with) or reorganize AISS so it will have just bunch of directoryes per let's say 100 files in each (and for support all old apps which get them from root of aiis, just put some redirect scripts, or softlinks, or whatever).Neither the OS nor the application needs to do a directory listing in order to load one file. If it does, that's a bug.