P Witte wrote:
> I can understand that a qxl.win container file could get fragmented
> during creation. But do you mean that the container file can get
> fragmenbted on the Windoze side by file operations on the QL side too?
No, once it's in one piece it should stay that way. But then I
sometimes make/restore backups and in that case the new file can be
fragmented again. But as I said, I don't really see this as a problem
anyway.
I just recall one instance when I did have to "defragment" my QXL.WIN
drive, and that was after extracting thousands of files on it (SMSQ/E
sources) and then making the different directories afterwards. This
leads to huge spaces in the directory structures and has a noticeable
speed impact.
For example the main directory could have looked like this:
smsq_1000
smsq_1001
smsq_1002
smsq_1003
[...] 995 more files
smsq_1999
Now when I make a "make_dir win1_smsq" the result is like this
<deleted entry>
<deleted entry>
<deleted entry>
<deleted entry>
[...] 995 more deleted entries
<deleted entry>
smsq-> <directory>
Now every time I requested something out of the smsq_ directory SMSQ/E
had to look through 1000 deleted entries to finally find the one with
the directory. The morale: create your directories first.
Marcel
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