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From: Dickson@pco-multics.hbi.honeywell.com (Paul Dickson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Disk optimizer
Message-ID: <6015@louie.udel.EDU>
Date: 17 Dec 88 22:03:12 GMT
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Why would anyone want to do a PC disk optimize on a multitasking
machine.  The two tend to be mutually exclusive.  On a multitasking
machine you would prefer to have the records scattered about on the
disk.  While on a PC, you want records that belong to a file gathered as
close together as possible.  My startup-sequence would run much faster
if the records were more scattered, it would cut down on some of the
disk thrashing with multiple tasks running.

          -Paul Dickson
             Dickson%pco @ BCO-Multics.HBI.Honeywell.COM