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- From: pgleason@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM (Pat Gleason)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: DISKCACHE vs IFS CACHE
- Message-ID: <77764@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM>
- Date: 17 Dec 92 22:52:34 GMT
- References: <BzEuKF.AIv@world.std.com>
- Organization: NCR Engineering and Manufacturing Atlanta -- Atlanta, GA
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- In <BzEuKF.AIv@world.std.com> bsn@world.std.com (Brent S Noorda) writes:
-
- >The command tells that the CACHE/: in the IFS line of
- >CONFIG.SYS provides disk caching.
-
- This line provides disk caching for HPFS (High Performance File system)
- drives. The OS/2 install program seems to add this even if you have
- no HPFS drives. If you do not have any, you can gain some additional
- memory by REMing it out.
-
- >It also says that the DISKCACHE line provides diskcaching. Do these
- >things work together? Are they exclusive? What?
-
- The DISKCACHE line provides disk caching for normal FAT drives.
-