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Article #40942Re: Inefficiency with DiskFit 1.5 during backups
From: Gerald Edgar
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 1989 11:52
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 1989 11:52
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jlc@atux01.UUCP (J. Collymore) writes:
]I find that SOME disks, after doing
]incrementals, have anywhere from 50K to 250K unused! I thought DiskFit was to
]shuffle things around so that it weould make maximum use of ALL free space on
]... would SuperMac PLEASE do something to improve this
]feature in the next release?
fozzard@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Richard Fozzard) writes:
>I second this motion - I am having the same problem
>
Actually, I disagree. If it can be done with no trade-off, fine. But I doubt
it. I would not want to reduce the size of my Smart set by 10 percent if
it means an increase in the time taken by incremental backups. I figure
I'll spend a few extra dollars for disks in return for the time saved.
--
Gerald A. Edgar
Department of Mathematics TS1871@OHSTVMA.bitnet
The Ohio State University gae@sphere.mast.ohio-state.edu
Columbus, OH 43210 ...!{att,pyramid}!osu-cis!sphere.mast.ohio-state.edu!gae
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!sphere.mast.ohio-state.edu!gae From: gae@sphere.mast.ohio-state.edu (Gerald Edgar) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Inefficiency with DiskFit 1.5 during backups Keywords: Sub-optimal use of free disk space on floppies during inc. backup Message-ID: <520@sphere.mast.ohio-state.edu> Date: 15 Apr 89 11:52:49 GMT References: <1122@atux01.UUCP> <8119@boulder.Colorado.EDU> Reply-To: gae@sphere.UUCP (Gerald Edgar) Organization: The Ohio State University, Dept. of Math. Lines: 22