Re: Defrag for //gs

[shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

Rubywand (rubywand@swbell.net) wrote:

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

You were talking floppy disks at first. I never took a stopwatch to it but
the presence or lack of the grunt sound of the drive heads moving around
is a pretty good indicator.

Common sense tells me that file access will be faster if all the directory
blocks are lumped together at the beginning of the volume along with the
volume directory and bit map.
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