Re: Defrag for //gs

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

Randy Shackelford writes ...
> 
> Rubywand (rubywand@swbell.net) wrote:
> 
> :      Okay; you are mainly concerned with defragging a hard disk.
> : However, a number of tests indicate that, for 800k diskettes, the best
> : way to defragment files is via file copy under the standard Finder

 ....

> GS/OS doesn't have any more choice in placing directory blocks than does
> any other OS using ProDOS. It does look for contiguous empty space for files
> instead of blindly allocating the lowest numbered free block each time but
> that only helps so much.
> 
> :      The above seems to imply that, if there is a place to put hard disk
> : files, the best way to defrag a hard disk partition may be to copy the
> : files under the Finder to, say, an empty Zip Disk partition. Once the HD
> : partition is erased, the files could be file-copied back.
> 
> That's absolutely not so with hard disk volumes with lots of directories.

     Have you done any access time comparisons for File Copy vs. Beach
Comber HD partition defrags?
 


Rubywand