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{{Short description|Journaling filesystem used on Amiga computers}}
{{Infobox filesystem
| name = SFS
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== Features ==
SFS uses block sizes ranging from 512 (2<sup>9</sup>) to 32768 (2<sup>15</sup>) [[byte]]s with a maximum partition size of 128 GB.
Its good performance, better than [[Amiga Fast File System|FFS]], and lack of need for long "validation" in case of an error,<ref name="Hyperion">{{cite web|url=http://blog.hyperion-entertainment.biz/?p=210|title=Hard drive setup for AmigaOS 4.1 Classic|website=[[Hyperion Entertainment]] Blog|author=Darren Eveland}}</ref><ref name="TotalAmiga">{{cite journal|
Integrity is maintained by keeping a [[transaction log]] of all changes made to metadata over a certain period of time.<ref name="Forensics" /> 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 halfway through.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.amiga-stuff.com/text/filesystems/SFS.guide |author=Hendrikx, J |title=Smart Filesystem documentation |date=4 August 1998 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040707174441/http://www.amiga-stuff.com/text/filesystems/SFS.guide |archive-date=2004-07-07 }}</ref> Unlike the original Amiga filesystems, [[Amiga Fast File System|FFS]] and [[Amiga Old File System|OFS]], filesystem integrity is very rarely compromised by this.
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SFS is written in [[C (programming language)|C]] and was originally created and released as [[freeware]] in 1998 by John Hendrikx. After the original author left the Amiga scene in 2000, the source code to SFS was released and its development continued by Ralph Schmidt in [[MorphOS]].
Since May 2005 SFSobjec and SFSconfig are available under the [[GNU General Public License|GPL]] license. SFS development has now forked; as well as the original Amiga version, there are now versions for [[MorphOS]], [[AROS Research Operating System|AROS]], [[AmigaOS|AmigaOS 3]], and a version for [[AmigaOS 4]], which have different feature sets but remain compatible to each other. In addition, there is a driver for [[Linux]] to read (experimental to write) Amiga SFS volumes,<ref>{{cite web|title=Amiga SmartFileSystem, Linux implementation | url=http://home.elka.pw.edu.pl/~mszyprow/programy/asfs/
{{asof|2008}}, SFS was one of the independent filesystems still being used on Amiga computers.<ref>{{cite web|website=[[Ars Technica]]|url=https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2008/03/past-present-future-file-systems/4/|title=From BFS to ZFS: past, present and future of file systems|author=Jeremy Reimer|publisher=[[Condé Nast Publications]]|date=18 March 2008|quote=Many people did that, and some of the results, such as the Professional File System (PFS) and Smart File System (SFS), are still used by Amiga fans to this day.}}</ref>
Versions for [[AROS]], [[AmigaOS]] and [[MorphOS]] are based on different branches. The Linux version is independent code.
== See also ==
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* [http://www.xs4all.nl/~hjohn/SFS/ Original SFS site] including [http://hjohn.home.xs4all.nl/SFS/block.htm technical documentation]
* {{sourceforge|smartfilesystem}}
* [https://archive.
* {{cite web|url=http://www.intuitionbase.com/static.php?section=en_SFS-walkthrough|title=Smart File System, Walkthrough|website=IntuitionBase|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150911000334/http://www.intuitionbase.com/static.php?section=en_SFS-walkthrough|archive-date=11 September 2015}}
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