Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 11:19:16 +1100
From: Bill Currie <billc AT blackmagic DOT tait DOT co DOT nz>
Subject: Re: The is world dropping MS-DOS. What about DJGPP? (Was Re: Qua
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On 11 Sep 97 at 17:05, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> However, many people think that FAT systems also *must* be slower
> than the other types, which IMHO is plain wrong.  The speed depends
> on how the OS parts which deal with files were written, and how
> smart is the disk cache.

The ONLY slow part of FAT that I can think of is doing a seek from 
the beginning to the end as the OS has to scan though all the files 
fat entries.  Other than that, FAT can potentially be faster due to 
the number of sectors pointed to by one FAT entry.


Bill
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