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- From: kevinm@ocf.berkeley.edu (Kevin Miller)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Ways to double hard drive capacity???
- Date: 13 Sep 1992 08:57:12 GMT
- Organization: U.C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
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- Message-ID: <18uvp8INNoal@agate.berkeley.edu>
- References: <oleg.031b@crumpet.cts.com> <2ywn+sn.fuzzy@netcom.com>
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- In article <2ywn+sn.fuzzy@netcom.com> fuzzy@netcom.com (Fuzzy Fox) writes:
- >oleg@crumpet.cts.com (Oleg Rovner) writes:
- >
- >Since the compression is transparent to the user (in most cases),
- >Stacker really does effectively double the capacity, since for most
- >intents and purposes, it does work that way! Is that so hard for you to
- >understand?
- >
- This is no flame, but a serious question. How does stacker handle the
- possibility of system crashes during the time that it takes to compress a file?
- With multi-tasking systems, it seems entirely possible that at some point the
- system will crash while the on-the-fly compression program is still compressing
- a file (especially if the compressed file is large).
-
- Is the program simply lost? What about the structure of the stacker-type disk
- setup? Is it affected?
-
- Kevin
- kevinm@ocf.berkeley.edu
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