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- From: dcorn@paradise.pplnet.com (David Corn)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.introduction,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: What I want from new Workbench
- Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 19:26:53 GMT
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- On Tue, 19 Mar 96 21:36:22 GMT, Jonathan Belson
- <jon@dookie.demon.co.uk> wrote:
-
- >David Corn (dcorn@paradise.pplnet.com) wrote:
- >
- >: On a PC, the dir listings and updates are so much faster it isn't even
- >: funny. One has to wonder what the Amiga's doing that takes it so long
- >: with a few dozen (hundred is even slower) listings in a directory...
- >
- >This is because the directory information is spead over the disk rather
- >than being stored in one place. It makes a 'dir' slower but it is much
- >easier to recover files if your media corrupts.
- >
- >Use DC-FFS if it bothers you.
-
- I see. That's not the problem in Workbench. In Workbench, if you
- have a folder with 500 files in it, the drive spins for a moment, and
- then it takes a good while to open a window and put all of the (listed
- by name) icons in the folder. That has nothing to do with the FS
- since the disk has long since finished...
-