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Hi Brian,
On 24 February 2001 at 20:04:18 -0500 (which was 01:04 where I live)
Brian Clark wrote and made these points:
>> A disk defrag seems to be a common precursor to folder disasters.
>> The FAT based file system is very likely a weakness as well.
BC> This has me a little worried. I seem to recall that people who
BC> regularly compress their folders have had problems in the past
BC> after a disk defrag.
<snip>
BC> I have no earthly idea if this was directly related to TB! and
BC> folder compression.
Here's a software engineering take on the issue.
Compressing the folders is a matter or reading a flat data file and
rewriting it omitting data flagged as no longer required. It's a
simple software engineering feat. No "great mysteries" there. No need
to get "flash" with the OS to make it happen. No inherent problem
AFAIAC.
Such an operation *is* going to result in a fragmented file system
however. Nothing extraordinary, just run of the mill, standard
operation stuff and not exactly an unexpected side-effect.
If the OS defrag routines subsequently choke on a defrag, whose fault
is it? Where is the remedy? What is the circumstance?
While I can understand the need for regular scandisk operations, I
wonder at the need for /regular/ defrags. Defrag by hand when the
system starts to feel a bit sluggish is my personal preference.
I have to be skeptical of a defrag being done when the OS (esp. Win9x)
has been "up" for a while. These are operating systems whose stability
decreases the longer they run for. I must say that this isn't quite as
true of NT/2k. Nevertheless, I know which kind of operation is going
to be inherently more stable between TB's folder compression and an OS
defragmentation. Clue: it's not the defrag ;-).
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Cheers -- .\\arck D. Pearlstone -- Moderator TBUDL / TBBETA / TBTECH
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