Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 12:13:07 -0600 (CST)
From: "Colin W. Glenn" <cwg01 AT gnofn DOT org>
To: "'OpenDOS newsgroup'" <opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net>
Subject: Re: [opendos] Stacker and OpenDos
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On Sat, 15 Feb 1997, Bjorn Simonsen wrote:
> On 14 Feb 97, Colin W. Glenn <cwg01 AT gnofn DOT org> wrote
>  Subject: Re: [opendos] Stacker and OpenDos:
> > On Fri, 14 Feb 1997 soabs AT hermes DOT svf DOT uib DOT no wrote:
> > > I then setup my e-mail client on the new E: drive, and after doing

> > If I may bother you with a question, if all you're using the 'E:' drive
> > for is email, why are you bothering to defrag it at all?

> Yes you may :-). But, I must answer with a question. Why shouldn't I ?
[POP]
> does the above make more sense when I say I also keep stuff on my E 
> drive, rather than use it for read and delete (mail ) only?

Sorry, I thought you were just using it for email.

> My question still remains, and let me rephrase it slightly: Is it 
> possible that chunking up a disk in several compressed volumes might 
> improve the total performance, comparered to having all data 

I would say yes, namely because if you set it up right, you'll end up with
several chunks which _never_ need defragging because they never change. 
BTW, (someone correct me if I'm wrong), but as far as I know, when you
access a file within a compressed volume, stacker builds a list of the
locations where the file resides, then access's the area's of the volume
without re'refering to it's volume archive 'fat' again.  Best comparision
would be DOS extracting the clusters of a file from the FAT and making a
MiniFAT to use for retrieving the file.

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