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Fredrik Eriksson wrote:
> On Mon, 01 Jun 2009 22:07:26 +0200, Warp <war### [at] tag povray org> wrote:
>> I have a secondary 180GB FAT32 partition
>
> That would be the biggest problem right there. FAT32 is really horrible
> on partitions that large.
Oh, I didn't even see that part. Yes, agreed - the free space map on a FAT32
partition that big is huge, and at the wrong end of the disk. :-) To defrag
a piece of file, it has to read the the directory entry, then the FAT to get
the location of the file, then read the FAT to find a free space, allocate
the free space, sync the FAT, copy the sectors, sync the sectors, change the
directory, sync the directory, then re-read the FAT and fix the previously
allocated sectors to be free, and sync the FAT. Lather rinse repeat.
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
There's no CD like OCD, there's no CD I knoooow!
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