[Feb 22, 97 - 23:32] Tony Dunlap of 1:2220/30.1 wrote to DOUG SHARP:
TD> This is the first time I have heard of anyone talk about defragmenting a 
TD> drive for any reason other than speeding file access. It would seem to me 
TD> that the act of defragging would jerk the heads around just as much if 
not 
TD> more than merely accessing the fragmented file.
A more important question is how do you access your files?  If you access 
your files in alphabetical order and sequentially within each file, then an 
optimum file layout is obvious.  If you access random parts of random files, 
then it isn't clear to me that the same file layout might not be less optimal 
than a completely random distribution of small file fragments.
::: Success is a marvelous deoderant.
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Jerry Schwartz
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