Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!super!udel!rochester!cornell!mailrus!ncar!noao!asuvax!teroach!stan
From: stan@teroach.UUCP (Stan Fisher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: How can I tell if I'm running FFS?
Keywords: 1.3, FFS, Overdrive, ST157N
Message-ID: <1454@teroach.UUCP>
Date: 22 Nov 88 16:03:39 GMT
References: <621@cord.UUCP>
Reply-To: stan@teroach.UUCP (Stan Fisher)
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Organization: Motorola Microcomputer Division, Tempe, Az.
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In article <621@cord.UUCP> nsw@cord.UUCP (Neil Weinstock) writes:
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>So:  How can I absolutely confirm that I am in fact running FFS on
>my supposed FFS partition?  I can find nothing in the Enhancer
>to indicate that there's a command which will show what file system
>is running on any particular mounted device.
>
>Any advice on this would be most appreciated.
>

One very easy way is to select the icon for your FFS partition and
do 'info' from the workbench menus.  A 'slow' partition will show 488
byte blocks under 1.3 and a FFS will show 512 byte blocks.

Yeah,  if you didn't see any performance increase I'd be
suspicious too!  I saw a 10x increase in writes and a 5x increase in
reads, right off the bat.
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+           Stan Fisher        uunet!unisoft!nud!teroach!stan             
+ Motorola Microcomputer Division, Tempe, Arizona -  (602) 438-3228
+ "...no no, let's wait for the A5000, MC88000 based Amiga with 536 Million
+  colors and 2K square graphics resolution, Yeah, that's the ticket.."