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- From: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry)
- Subject: Re: Disk Performance Questions
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.041804.4383@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
- Originator: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au
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- Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
- References: <1992Aug28.022157.5569@nuscc.nus.sg>
- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 04:18:04 GMT
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- TAN JIN MENG (eletanjm@nuscc.nus.sg) wrote:
- > hoppie@kub.nl (Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers) writes:
- >
- > :
- > : 3 It seems to me that OS/2 is just doing more than DOS, e.g. keeping
- > : EA's and peeking all files while you open up a folder etc. This means
- > : that raw disk performance will ever be less than DOS. Am I correct?
- > :
- > Under HPFS, your EA's are kept together with the file instead of in a
- > separate file (as in FAT). Access to the EA + file is thus faster.
-
- I find that if I hide my folders instead of closing them, things are a lot
- quicker. The boot up is probably a little slower but I can handle that.
-
- --
- Tom J Parry.
- Your reality is a figment of my imagination.
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