Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:23:12 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> To: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: defrag Message-ID: <20080829122003.S2724@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <20080829130947.F81044@sola.nimnet.asn.au> References: <20080828120024.4495910656D9@hub.freebsd.org> <20080829130947.F81044@sola.nimnet.asn.au>
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> > CP/M was single-user and was used on floppies up to 360kB AFAIK, > > And MP/M was multi-user, using the same filesystem. From memory, there > was perhaps one byte that indicated which user owned a file :) in CP/M there were "users" too, but it was just to help keeping it clear, not for security, you could simply type user <n> to switch users AFAIK. > > It wasn't (straight-up) theft; MS cut a deal with IBM to use HPFS and > OS/2, more or less in exchange for letting IBM licence Windows 3.1 as > WINOS/2 > > When things went sour - google provides days of happy reading if you're > interested - MS morphed it into NTFS for NT, cruelled the deal with IBM > so OS/2 couldn't run NT/Win95 apps (signing OS/2's death warrant, though > it took a long time to die) and stopped distributing OS/2 themselves. a little better than theft but... as you said > > writing a few-paged document or view a webpage > > Yeah, yeah :) I'd be surprised if NTFS isn't as defrag-proof as HPFS, > which as I recall had self-defragging garbage-collecting features built exactly like in microsoft. they quickly created similar filesystem not even really understanding it, or if they did - simply ignoring things. > used it for quite a few years to run BBS and Fidonet stuff, not once > losing any data .. HPFS was a very resiliant and reliable filesystem. i never used OS/2 for really long, my friend was. it was faster than FAT by much, and never had FS crash.
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