Re: is this a known bub in repeater?

[Sean Echevarria <sean_@mindspring.com>]

At 09:59 PM 2002/08/28 -0400, Tom Ritchford wrote:
>At 6:46 PM -0700 8/28/02, Sean Echevarria wrote:
>>If the CFC was close to being full, wouldn't writing the same files back 
>to the CFC cause defragmentation?
>
>I believe that you intended to write "fragmentation".

sure did :)


>> You're assuming the writes will happen contiguously (not just 
>unfragmented but also nice and neat with no gaps between each file)? It 
>seems that if there are gaps between earlier files written, then the last 
>files to be written will have to be fragmented.
>
>It's not a requirement of DOS format but in practice disk driver writers 
>do in fact
>allocate memory from a clean disk contiguously for that very reason.

Good practice though I would have sworn I'd seen newly copied files 
getting placed non-contiguously in my DOS days.