Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!swbatl!texbell!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: dos_stuff Keywords: fast,faster,fastest Message-ID: <4339@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 11 Oct 89 11:23:49 GMT References: <5546@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> <126083@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Reply-To: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston Lines: 14 In article <126083@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis) writes: > Generally this will help but you won't get the max speed out of the system > because A-Dos still bunches the directory entries together (so that the > dir command is faster) and the data blocks, and for your appplication this > is exactly the wrong thing to do. Is this a significant problem with only one file to open? That is, once the file is open, will it continue to slow things down to have the header block on a different track? -- Peter "Have you hugged your wolf today" da Silva `-_-' ...texbell!sugar!peter, or peter@sugar.hackercorp.com 'U` ``Back off dude! I'm a topologist!'' -- Andrew Molitor