Re: CFFA V2.0

[Andy McFadden <fadden@fadden.com>]

PZ <skierpaul@yahoo.com> wrote:
> It doesn't make a lot of sense to downselect to 4 prodos partitions to
> use an "optimized" GSOS driver for speed and then HAVE to use HFS for
> most of your disk with HFS having crappy overhead and all on a GS.
> 
> I'd prefer to have a stack of 256mb cards w/8 partitions WITH a fast
> GSOS driver rather than a 1GB card w/4 partitions and a massive HFS
> volume.

If you arrange your files carefully, the performance differences between
ProDOS and HFS may not matter.  For example, if you put all the stuff
you work on regularly in the first 4*32=128MB, and then use HFS for
storage (disk images, ShrinkIt archives, sound/image libraries), you can
get the low overhead of ProDOS with the large storage capacity of HFS.

I've used the card in 8-volume mode for brief periods while testing, but
I don't remember how it interacted with the GS/OS driver.

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