From: "Francis Huang" <fhuang AT crosswinds DOT net>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: File Handling Question
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 23:07:31 -0400
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I just finished analyzing my bootlog.txt, now I know all the files in their
exact order!

I've tried defrag, and it will scramble up the files in all sorts of places
on the disk.  The problem with W95 scandisk is that it does not care for the
file order, so if I had the files on my disk with the one file needed after
another, example
file1; file2; file3; file4, instead of
file1; unneeded_files; file4; unneeded_files; file3; more_unneded_files;
file2

So I minimize seek time, increase hard disk speed.  BTW, I understand
Unix/Linux does not have "disk problems" due to much better handling of
such.  Problem is, I'm not going to bother installing Linux when I have 3
machines on nice cozy Win95.


>
> But I rather think that what you do is not the right solution for your
> problem.  If you see any significant speedup by copying files like you
> describe, something's seriously wrong with your system setup.  Perhaps
> running a defragmenter on your C disk will remove the problem.