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- From: alla0008@student.tc.umn.edu (Graham Allan)
- Subject: Re: adfsbuffers
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.061428.20289@news2.cis.umn.edu>
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- References: <1992Dec18.113330@informatik.uni-kl.de> <1992Dec20.011534.5366@cs.aukuni.ac.nz> <FL.92Dec21130356@pierre.tools.de>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 06:14:28 GMT
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- In article <FL.92Dec21130356@pierre.tools.de> fl@tools.de (Frank Lancaster) writes:
- >
- >Actually adfsbuffers does have a dramatic effect on reading
- >and writing a single file. Using my RISC OS tar for a large hard disc
- >backup with compression, I normally set adfsbuffers to 255. Then
- >writing to the disc happens in the background and the compression
- >of a file can begin before the preceeding file has been completely
- >written to disc. This also works under taskwindows, so you get
- >somewhat better preemptive multitasking.
-
- I noticed this! Having just upgraded to RO3.1, I managed to do my
- long-delayed HD backup with tar in a taskwindow. The best part was, it got
- through all 70 floppies without a hitch! Under RO2, the machine would
- always hang at some really annoying moment, like disc 20. It was also
- noticably faster than under RO2.
-
- Graham
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