Making icon (.info) loading faster...

[quenthal]

Yesterday I backed up my SYS to cdrw (just burned the whole drive as it is with makecd). In MakeCD there was this nice option to put all .info files to the beginning of CD to speed up .info -loading.

However, what really is intresting is that loading for example all those icons I have in Prefs-drawer loaded infact faster, and atleast in order, compared when opened from my real harddrive.

So what I'm wondering if there is some sort of intelligent defragmenter for SFS? Or is this reorganization only possible if I copy all my stuff to safe place, format SYS, and then copy files manually back?

[quenthal]

Hmm.. Wonder why I didn't use ReOrg when I was still using FFS.

After little googling I stumbled to this (at old SFS homepage):

3 November 1998, changes for version 1.10:
...
- Set version to 1.x to be compatible with ReOrg (ReOrg sometimes hangs the machine when there is a SFS filesystem which has a 0.x version).  SFS is still not finished however, so be careful!

But that probably just means that ReOrg can work on your FFS partitions even when there are some SFS partitions as well. Well, I try with some non-important sfs-partition.

[quenthal]

Well, it doesn't work as Piru said. So that leaves manual reorganization as only(?) option for SFS-users.

[quenthal]

blobrana wrote:
Hum,
i noticed that IconBeFast.lha (30kb) was loaded onto aminet a few days ago. It claims to patch them for faster icons & colour mapping  (read me)

Yeah, that is true. Reorg. of ".info"s with this patch speeds up icon loading quite a lot.