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Offline psxphill

Re: Defragmenter for low-spec Amigas?
« on: February 14, 2013, 03:15:28 PM »
Quote from: ChaosLord;726362
100% True. Fragmentation does not hurt Flash drives.

While they don't have to deal with rotational delay or seek time, some file systems will have a CPU overhead when dealing with fragmented files.
 
If the flash memory is connected to a decent controller then only issuing one read request is likely to be faster than issuing many.
 
Modern RAM is solid state, but can read from contiguous locations faster than random access. So it's possible that some flash memory could have similar properties.
 

Offline psxphill

Re: Defragmenter for low-spec Amigas?
« Reply #1 on: February 15, 2013, 04:17:13 AM »
Quote from: danbeaver;726429
Original question: Defrag Utilities
 
ReOrg, B.A.D., QuarterBack Tools, AmiBack Tools
 
These are all available on-line if you know where to look.

I actually wouldn't defrag an FFS partition since I had Reorg destroy my hard disk one time when it crashed half way through.
 
I'd probably just go for either SFS or PFS. Both have online defragmentation and I would trust it more.
 

Offline psxphill

Re: Defragmenter for low-spec Amigas?
« Reply #2 on: February 15, 2013, 08:33:30 PM »
Quote from: paul1981;726504
I'm pretty sure SFS doesn't defragment itself. It certainly didn't defragment my drive when I had two 1.6GB partitions.

You have to run SFSdefrag.
 
http://aminet.net/package/disk/misc/SFS
 
"o FAST defragmentation routines (100% transparent built-in optimiser)"

[generic]                 7972   13024  61.2% -lh5- 0ad8 Dec 21  2006 Smartfilesystem/AmigaOS3.x/SFSdefrag

PFS defrag support isn't as good as SFS.