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From: hunt@dg-rtp.rtp.dg.com (Greg Hunt)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Unix files
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Date: 1 Feb 91 15:13:05 GMT
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In article <1991Jan31.171241.3557@cs.wayne.edu>, alm@athena.cs.wayne.edu (Allaoua Maamir) writes:
> Is there a way (other than writing my own device driver)
> to be able to store two files contiguosly on disck.
> ( I am not very much experirnced with Unix, please reply in
> simple vocabulary). Any help would be very much appreciated.
> Thanks.

Not that I know of.  And in general, you usually don't have to care.
The filesystems in OS's that I'm familiar with do a pretty good job,
on average, of placing files on the disk in a reasonable manner.
Unless you're doing something quite special, like writing real-time
software that requires minimum delays from the filesystem, you
probably don't really need to have the two files stored contiguously
on the disk.

I hope this makes sense.  If not, having a better explaination of
what you're trying to accomplish by placing the files contiguously
would make it easier to respond.

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Greg Hunt                        Internet: hunt@dg-rtp.rtp.dg.com
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