[Coco] Question for those familiar with rbf.mn

[Allen Huffman]

> On Jan 31, 2015, at 1:06 PM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> 
> By then I had been campaigning to 
> get folks to raise the default value of it.sas in their rbf file 
> descriptors from $09 to at least $10, and I was using from $20 to $FF in 
> order to assure both non-fragmented files, AND at the same time prevent 
> ever coming close to a segment list full error because if you do, 
> nitros9's recovery from isn't pretty.


Gene,

What happens if a block is not found that size? Does it just fail, or will it use the largest it can find?

I ran in to an issue tonight that I believe is caused by having a nearly full hard drive. Somehow things went from “zippy” to “molasses” real quick, so I’m still not quite sure if that is the root cause.  I am running the JWT Enterprises “Optimize” program on my drive right now. It’s a defragmenter, not an optimizer, so it just ensures files have now more than X segments (whatever you specify, default 1). As a bonus, it will pack directories cleaning up deleted entries, and can optionally float directories to the top.

You can even run it on files in just one directory. It’s a great thing, and was lightspeed compared to a true defragmenter program like Burke & Burkes (though that did a better job overall once you let it run for 20 hours).

I made a .DSK image of a floppy drive last night using a B09 program I wrote. I see that image is 19 segments (though it has been the only file found that has any fragments so far).

I am going to adjust my min allocation. Thank you for the repeated encouragement. I did not realize i would fill 128MB as quickly as I did :)

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