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From: kkerce@x102c.harris-atd.com (Kingsley F. Kerce)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Disk caching--BUFFERS or FASTOPEN needed?
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Date: 4 Jul 89 00:50:43 GMT
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As I understand it, MS-DOS's BUFFERS entry in `config.sys' reserves
memory for information read from disks, and the FASTOPEN command
"tracks" the location of files on disks, holding hard pointers (to the
location of the files) in memory.

It seems that the functionality of BUFFERS and FASTOPEN is duplicated
if one uses a disk caching scheme.

Comments?
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