On Mon, Nov 01, 1999 at 08:04:39PM -0600, Tim Mooney <mooney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Wouldn't the situation be even worse, then, if we're going through the > filesystem and there's "average" fragmentation? You seem to be assuming that > the filesystem allocation will be contiguous (or at least close) on disk, > but can you really make that assumption? I don´t care for windows, if you wanted to hear that ;-> If the OS does not make this assumption a fact (in most cases) then all bets are off anyway. -- -----==- | ----==-- _ | ---==---(_)__ __ ____ __ Marc Lehmann +-- --==---/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / pcg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx |e| -=====/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ XX11-RIPE --+ The choice of a GNU generation | |