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Date:	Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:00:50 PST8
From:	Martin Rosenfeld <rosenfeldmj@comcast.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Tweaking FAT32.IFS to Boost Performance

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I don't know how this observation relates to this discussion, but let me
relate it anyway. I share a FAT32 volume between eCS and WIN2K (Boot
Manager used to dual boot). I keep my font collection on the FAT32
volume. I recently copied the fonts to a CD (and then back again). There
are about 2000 fonts in a subdirectory. It took about an hour to copy
them. I used COPY in 4OS2. My processor was continually about 30% busy.

Martin Rosenfeld

>I would not consider a directory with two hundred files a large directory. The
>problem has nothing to do with the total amount of data on a drive only the
>number of files in any single directory.
>
>What is large? I don't know how many files are needed before the perform
>problems starts when using FAT. I do know that one directory I was trying to
>copy had about 50,000 files (which is no problem on NTFS, HPFS, and JFS) and it
>did not complete copying to a FAT32 drive and I let the copy run about 10 hours
>before giving up.
>
>
>

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