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Re: is this a known bub in repeater?
At 09:59 PM 2002/08/28 -0400, Tom Ritchford wrote:
>At 6:46 PM -0700 8/28/02, Sean Echevarria wrote:
>>If the CFC was close to being full, wouldn't writing the same files back
>to the CFC cause defragmentation?
>
>I believe that you intended to write "fragmentation".
sure did :)
>> You're assuming the writes will happen contiguously (not just
>unfragmented but also nice and neat with no gaps between each file)? It
>seems that if there are gaps between earlier files written, then the last
>files to be written will have to be fragmented.
>
>It's not a requirement of DOS format but in practice disk driver writers
>do in fact
>allocate memory from a clean disk contiguously for that very reason.
Good practice though I would have sworn I'd seen newly copied files
getting placed non-contiguously in my DOS days.