Re: Compressed directories

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From: Duncan Murdoch
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1992 12:54

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In article <1992Oct6.131645.21146@wts.com> jbf@wts.com (Jens B. Fiederer) writes:
>>The disadvantage, of course, is that if I ever tried writing to one of these
>>"disks" I could really get a mess of fragmented files; however, I'm willing 
>>to make the disk read-only, and have a separate utility to create it.
>
>Since cluster sizes are multiples of 512 byte sectors, this does not seem
>possible, but even if it were, fragmentation would be the least of your
>problems - your FAT would then contain 1.5 bytes for each byte of allocated
>file space, it would no longer fit in memory (unless you had a real tiny disk),
>thus file access time would really bite....

The point is that I wouldn't have a FAT, of course.  Since DOS won't be able 
to create files, I can assure that they're not fragmented; then there's no 
need for a FAT.


Duncan Murdoch
dmurdoch@mast.queensu.ca

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