[Info-vax] Valid disk types for SIMH?

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Tue Nov 24 17:20:35 EST 2009


In article <00881af7$0$17034$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
>
>OS-X brags about fragmentation not being an issue, and I have no idea
>how it does this.  From a legacy point of view, it would seem that
>allocating your 30 gig drive in one shot would make more sense from a
>performance point of view since it is more chances oif it being
>contiguous. Doing on-demand allocation may work, but can it still yield
>efficiently organised contiguous allocations ?

You will find a periodic dunp/restore will convince you otherwise.

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