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From: esj@harvee.UUCP (Eric S Johansson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Defragmentation
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Date: 15 Feb 91 22:59:06 GMT
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In article <16652@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> gknauss@sdcc13.ucsd.edu
(G. "Maddog" Knauss) writes:
>
> Aaagh...  DLII IS apparently flakey because it goofed my word
> processing partition.  I've managed to recover everything important,
> but, geez, I never want to have to go through that again.  I guess I
> should have just copied everything away and then back again...
> 				Stupid, stupid, stupid,
> 				Greg "Bonehead" Knauss


I remember a discussion on the net a few months (years??) ago that DLII
is flakey if there are 0 length files in your partion.  Does anyone
have any evidence to prove/disprove this claim??

I am also wondering if there are any de-frag algorithms that do
not require bypassing the file system.  I imagine that one could write
a defragger by paying attention to the FAT read only while letting
the file system modify the FAT when copying/moving files to
contigious disk space.

--- eric
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