Re: adfsbuffers

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From: Graham Allan
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 06:14

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In article <FL.92Dec21130356@pierre.tools.de> fl@tools.de (Frank Lancaster) writes:
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>Actually adfsbuffers does have a dramatic effect on reading
>and writing a single file. Using my RISC OS tar for a large hard disc
>backup with compression, I normally set adfsbuffers to 255. Then
>writing to the disc happens in the background and the compression
>of a file can begin before the preceeding file has been completely
>written to disc. This also works under taskwindows, so you get
>somewhat better preemptive multitasking.

I noticed this! Having just upgraded to RO3.1, I managed to do my
long-delayed HD backup with tar in a taskwindow. The best part was, it got
through all 70 floppies without a hitch! Under RO2, the machine would
always hang at some really annoying moment, like disc 20. It was also
noticably faster than under RO2.

Graham

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