People who run VMS systems become all too familiar with the
characteristics of extent mapping. Files-11 tends to cause
slowly-expanding files to wind up with lots of short extents if the
filesystem is nearing capacity. There's a healthy market for
defragmentation products in this space. No doubt this was one of the
things that prompted the development of Spiralog.
-- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mwood@IUPUI.Edu A Brazil-nut is neatly packaged and tightly integrated. To turn it into food, you must crack and remove the shell. I find that I feel the same way about an increasing number of software products. *sigh*
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