x11 Abiword starts up faster..

My SYS: partition (using FFS2) crashed the other day. I had a backup handy and I was able to correct the problem easily. (I had a week old backup on BACKUP_SYS:, and as luck would have it, I had a 1 hour old backup on DVD+RW).. SYS: was corrupted and wouldnt revalidate or boot, so I booted on my backup drive, then went into Media toolbox and killed two birds with one stone. I set the partition to SFS/00, and in the process it wiped it clean for me (it didnt want to reformat without locking up). So I changed the filesystem, saved the changes, did a warm reset, did a quick format, then copied the contents of CD0:dh0/ back over to SYS: and was done in 20 minutes.. easy.

But anyway.. today, I had to do a job with Abiword. Previously, it would take around a minute for it to startup. But I noticed that it now starts up in around 10 seconds like on my friends A1! I wonder if SFS on my SYS: partition made the difference? I didnt think there were many x11 files used on SYS:..

I just thought you guys might find this interesting. :)

@jahc

I haven't used FFS since upd4, so i can't comment on speed
differences, but i think the overall acess speed is quite
better with SFS

@Raziel

Yes, its much better isnt it? But for some reason I've never installed SFS on my boot partition. I had used SFS for everything else.

@jahc

Quote:TTF fonts used by X11 on SYS:? Your Cygnix:Home/root/.fonts.conf probably includes <dir>/sys/Fonts/_TrueType</dir>

@jahc

I haven't moved to SFS as yet. Basically because in earlier days there was no recovery action for SFS, has this changed, my FFS partitions veg out at time but can recover.
I know SFS is a lot faster than FFS but not being technical I don't want to risk things.

ace

@acefnq

Quote:
I dont know if this is 100% correct, but I've got the impression that SFS is much harder to fuck up than FFS, but when it does fuck up, it fucks up bad.

@joerg

I didnt think of that! I was worried that x11 had got its hooks into my system. I would prefer it keep to its own dir as much as possible. :)

there it is: <dir>/sys/Fonts/_TrueType</dir>

a quick list of that dir shows at the bottom:
42 files - 7285K bytes - 14633 blocks used

@jahc

I thought X11 and AbiWord started loading faster after the latest OS4 update. I didn't time it or anything but I could swear it is running faster.

I've been on SFS since last fall.

@jahc
@acefnq

True, it's MUCH more stable and harder to shook than FFS
but it's also true that (at least for me) IF i stumbled
onto a hard error i have to reformat the partition.

Fortunately one gets the chance to backup all remaining
"good" files (as it mostly is only one file or dir that
went bad) to another partition and copy them back after
format.

A "repair" function would be awesome, integrated into
Partition Wizard, maybe!?

"Bounty" anyone?