On 03 Nov 94 04:35:00 +0000, Johnathan Taylor said: > Hmm, that's a tricky one! On ProDos due to extensive cache'n ALL > random-access > positioning is calculated from scratch each time its required...
I thought ProDos wrote CP/M format disks, so why does it need to cache anything? > If Cache'n of the FAT and directory is going to be done, then random > positioning on a file can be done in a similar fashion othrwise, PASS! If my calculations are correct, an entire FAT would require 128K so caching it would be rather expensive and therefore random access would be rather slow. I'm definitely not in favour of a FAT-based system. imc
