NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #16/NN_1992_16.iso/spool/comp/os/os2/programm/3680

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Subject: Re: Characteristics of HPFS
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Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1992 14:57:59 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]> uunet.uu.net!weyrich!orville writes:
>I have read through the documentation that come with OS/2 2.0 and know
>that one advantage of the HPFS is that it supports long file names.
>
>Is this the only advantage? Or does it have other benefits such as
>
>    1) keeps itself from getting fragmented by doing garbage
>       collection/compaction on the fly? [So that a "disk optimizer"
>       would not be needed or useful].
>
>    2) Handles directories with a large number of files better than
>       DOS? [DOS starts slowing down after about 100 files are added
>       to a directory. My System V Unix 3.0 starts slowing down after
>       about 1000 files are added to a directory.]

Both of these are correct, compared to FAT. There is a file on
ftp-os2.nmsu.edu which details the file system, and explains most
of the stuff you would want to know.

>orville
>
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Eirik
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