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On Friday 15 February 2008, Dale wrote: |
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> Uwe Thiem wrote: |
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> > Back in the days when I still used DOS, one certainly wanted to |
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> > defragment periodically. The system became significantly more |
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> > performant for a while. On Linux/Unix, I never bothered. |
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> > Uwe |
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> Yea, I remember those days too. Put the disk and get it started then |
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> wait until it finishes the next day. Sometimes it would take more |
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> time than that. I mean, when you got a puter with 64K of ram and |
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> maybe 200 or 300MBs of hard drive space, well, it takes a while. Oh, |
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> that 4MHz blazingly fast CPU helped a lot too. ;-) |
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I remember using PCTools for defrag then switching to Norton. Took 2 |
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days on a 20M MFM drive - Norton used a different layout scheme to |
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PCTools and wanted to change *everything* around. |
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Heck, I remember changing the interleaving on that disk from 1 to 3 and |
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getting a massive performance increase... |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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