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In article <1992Jul20.041715.6892@weyrich.UUCP> uunet.uu.net!weyrich!orville writes:
>I have read through the documentation that come with OS/2 2.0 and know
>that one advantage of the HPFS is that it supports long file names.
>
>Is this the only advantage? Or does it have other benefits such as
>
>	1) keeps itself from getting fragmented by doing garbage
>	   collection/compaction on the fly? [So that a "disk optimizer"
>	   would not be needed or useful].
>
>	2) Handles directories with a large number of files better than
>	   DOS? [DOS starts slowing down after about 100 files are added
>	   to a directory. My System V Unix 3.0 starts slowing down after
>	   about 1000 files are added to a directory.]

Both of these are correct, compared to FAT. There is a file on 
ftp-os2.nmsu.edu which details the file system, and explains most
of the stuff you would want to know.

>orville
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