alm@athena.cs.wayne.edu (Allaoua Maamir) (02/01/91)
Is there a way (other than writing my own device driver) to be able to store two files contiguosly on disck. ( I am not very much experirnced with Unix, please reply in simple vocabulary). Any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks.
hunt@dg-rtp.rtp.dg.com (Greg Hunt) (02/01/91)
In article <1991Jan31.171241.3557@cs.wayne.edu>, alm@athena.cs.wayne.edu (Allaoua Maamir) writes: > Is there a way (other than writing my own device driver) > to be able to store two files contiguosly on disck. > ( I am not very much experirnced with Unix, please reply in > simple vocabulary). Any help would be very much appreciated. > Thanks. Not that I know of. And in general, you usually don't have to care. The filesystems in OS's that I'm familiar with do a pretty good job, on average, of placing files on the disk in a reasonable manner. Unless you're doing something quite special, like writing real-time software that requires minimum delays from the filesystem, you probably don't really need to have the two files stored contiguously on the disk. I hope this makes sense. If not, having a better explaination of what you're trying to accomplish by placing the files contiguously would make it easier to respond. -- Greg Hunt Internet: hunt@dg-rtp.rtp.dg.com DG/UX Kernel Development UUCP: {world}!mcnc!rti!dg-rtp!hunt Data General Corporation Research Triangle Park, NC, USA These opinions are mine, not DG's.