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From: alderaan@tubopal.UUCP (Thomas Cervera)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Hard drive defragger
Message-ID: <690@opal.tubopal.UUCP>
Date: 8 Sep 89 11:21:28 GMT
References: <8909052223.AA16894@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <685@opal.tubopal.UUCP> <1604@laura.UUCP>
Reply-To: alderaan@tubopal.UUCP (Thomas Cervera)
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
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In article <1604@laura.UUCP> klute@trillian.irb.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Rainer Klute) writes:
>In article <685@opal.tubopal.UUCP> alderaan@tubopal.UUCP (Thomas Cervera) writes:
>Not only power fails may cause trouble. I have used REORG
>several times successfully *until* it obviously ran into an
>endless loop.

  If I remember right, there is something in the release notes telling you
to watch for zero-length files (check option) with DL_II before bringing
REORG up. This should preserve REORG from infinite loops.
  Sure, REORG should check for these files itself, but it doesn't yet.

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