Smart File System

Smart File System

The Smart File System (SFS) is a journaling filesystem used on Amiga computers. It is designed for performance, scalability and integrity. It uses block sizes ranging from 512 (29) to 32768 (215) bytes with a maximum partition size of 128 GB.

Good performance of the filesystem is realized by grouping multiple directory entries into a single block and by grouping meta data blocks together into clusters. A bitmap is used to keep track of free space, and file data is kept track of using extents arranged into a B+ tree structure.

Integrity is maintained by keeping a rollback log of all changes made to metadata over a certain period of time. The log is written to disk first into free space and then meta data blocks are overwritten directly. Should the system crash, the next time the filesystem is mounted it will notice the uncompleted operation and roll it back to the last known consistent state. For performance reasons, only metadata integrity is ensured. Actual data in files can still be corrupted if a write operation is terminated half way through.

One particular interesting feature of SFS is its ability to defragment itself while the filesystem is in use, even for locked files. The defragmentation process is almost completely stateless (apart from the location it is working on), which means it can be stopped and started instantly. During defragmentation data integrity is ensured of both meta data and normal data.

SFS is a free filesystem written in C originally created in 1998 by John Hendrikx. After the original author left the Amiga scene in 2000, the sources for SFS were released and its development continued.

Since May 2005 the SFS source code is available under the LGPL license.

See also

* Amiga Old File System
* Amiga Fast File System
* Professional File System
* [http://lclevy.club.fr/adflib/index.html The ADFlib Page] and precisely [http://lclevy.club.fr/adflib/adf_info.html ADF File specs]

The ADFLib specs are also available into Aminet Archive.

* [ftp://it.aminet.net/pub/aminet/disk/misc/ADFlib.lha Link to ADFlib.lha in Aminet repository]
* File system
* List of file systems
* MorphOS

External links

* [http://home.wtal.de/js/ Official site]
* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/smartfilesystem/ SourceForge]
* [http://pingu.ii.uj.edu.pl/~armo/morphos/ SfsRecoverTool]


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