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From: james@cantuar.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: HFS/MFS
Message-ID: <241@cantuar.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 12-Oct-87 08:17:52 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 12 08:17:52 1987
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Reply-To: james@cantuar.UUCP (J. Collier)
Organization: University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
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Keywords: 800k MFS RamStart Standard File

Earle R. Horton (earleh@dartvax.UUCP) writes:
 ...
>Why you would need an 800k MFS floppy completely escapes me. 
 ...

   RamStart users find 800k MFS floppies quite useful.
   I usually set RamStart as the startup application, and have it copy the 
System, Finder and whatever else I require. The easiest way to do this is to
place RamStart in the System folder. (You could use a startup document, but..)
   By using an MFS floppy and keeping the various system initialisation files
(Appleshare, MacsBug etc.) outside the system folder, you can avoid wasting ~50k
of RamDisk (or rather, avoid the effort of dragging the icons into the rubbish
bin).

   There are other uses for large MFS volumes - workable but aging PD software
being just one of them. Another use involves a volume with ~50 source files, a
clean desktop, and not having to take a tea break while using the Standard File
dialog. This last one is surprising; take note :-

   To display the SFGetFile dialog, from selecting the drive to choosing the
file from a 2nd-level folder of 50 files (System 3.3, both disks 60-70% full):

                        800k MFS:  4+-0.5 seconds
                        800k HFS: 15+-2 seconds (mostly 2nd level search)

  (Hmm..  you can improve the latter time substantially [~8s] by moving the
files out of the folder and back again within the same disk. I guess this shakes
up the catalog tree, but for some reason I find it unhealthy that tricks like
this should be necessary.)
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