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- From: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
- Subject: Re: A/UX 3.0 partition slower than Mac Partition
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- Date: 20 Nov 92 14:58:07 GMT
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- li@oculus.loni.ucla.edu (James Li) writes:
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- >In article <1257@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov> jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski) writes:
- >>li@oculus.loni.ucla.edu (James Li) writes:
- >>
- >>>When working from Mac Applications, access to the Mac Partition is several
- >>>times faster than a folder/directory under the root (/) partition. Is
- >>>this normal, and if so, could someone explain why? Also, is there anything
- >>>that can be done to make this faster?
- >>
- >>Could it be the simple fact that the MacPartition is many times _smaller_
- >>than "/"...?
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- >I really don't think so because the files I am talking about are about 500K,
- >unless there's heavy fragmentation. On that note, is there a unix utility
- >I am not aware of that manages fragmentation (equivalent of Norton Speed
- >Disk) or is that somehow handled by the OS?
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- I guess the question is "how is it slower"?
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