Re: SEUL: Partitioning

[brick@global.co.za]

>The whole point of defrag is that when it has finished its evil task, all
>the files are defragmented. For linux.dsk, this is not a problem, because
>it is defragmented in the first place. All the kernel has to do is locate
>start+end offsets when the filesystem is mounted (a matter of under a
>second), then use direct disk access, as if linux.dsk was a partition.

Mebe then, all we need to do is to tell people to defragment their hdd
BEFORE installing Linux...  And even if subsequent defragmenting messes
with the linux file it should end up only at a different location on disk,
still unfragmented...

>--
>Thomas Molesworth            (thomas@bass.almac.co.uk)

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