jbayer@ispi.UUCP (Jonathan Bayer) (10/20/89)
I just ran Karl Denninger's port of packdisk on my xenix system. On my root filesystem, running packdisk from a bootable/root floppy, packdisk wasn't able to allocate enough memory for the entire inode list, so it ran a bit slower (according to it's message). On a 72 meg partition, 88% full, it took 3 hours, 9 minutes, 36 seconds. This partition has been in existance for about a year without being emptied and reloaded. Karl did a very good job in the port. My only feelings is that it is faster to do a complete backup, verify, mkfs, and restore of a filesystem than it is to run packdisk. Packdisk has the advantage of not needing anybody standing by, but the filesystem should still be backed up first. I should note that running packdisk on a filesystem that is not too fragmented does go much faster. If packdisk is run regularly then it is faster than the backup and restore cycle I described above. My complements to Rick Richardson for an excellent program. JB -- Jonathan Bayer Intelligent Software Products, Inc. (201) 245-5922 500 Oakwood Ave. jbayer@ispi.COM Roselle Park, NJ 07204
jbayer@ispi.UUCP (Jonathan Bayer) (10/21/89)
jbayer@ispi.UUCP (Jonathan Bayer) writes: >I just ran Karl Denninger's port of packdisk on my xenix system. On my >My complements to Rick Richardson for an excellent program. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Oops. My complements should go to Andrew Fyfe, who is the author of the packdisk program. Sorry. JB -- Jonathan Bayer Intelligent Software Products, Inc. (201) 245-5922 500 Oakwood Ave. jbayer@ispi.COM Roselle Park, NJ 07204
rick@pcrat.uucp (Rick Richardson) (10/21/89)
In article <1191@ispi.UUCP> jbayer@ispi.UUCP (Jonathan Bayer) writes: > >I just ran Karl Denninger's port of packdisk on my xenix system. >Karl did a very good job in the port. >My complements to Rick Richardson for an excellent program. Lets get the credits for "packdisk" correct: Andrew Fyfe - Wrote the Original Program GETS THE KUDOS! George Sipe - Fixed it for pre-ANSI C compilers -DOLDC Rick Richardson - Did port for 286en and changed an algorithm that was quadratic. -DSMALL, -DSHORTFREE, RERSPEEDUP Karl Denninger - Did port for Xenix -DM_XENIX BTW, there is also a "branch" of packdisk, after my changes, but before Karl's that was done by Karl Lehenbauer (-DI386). These changes are for UNIX V/386 Rel 3.2. I'm going to be merging Karl L.'s changes back into Karl D.'s latest version. Since I have both a 286 and a 386 running UNIX V, I'll be able to regression test. Then, the whole package is going back to Andrew Fyfe, so he can repost it to comp.sources.misc. And get proper kudos!!!!!! -- Rick Richardson | Looking for FAX software for UNIX/386 ?????? mention PC Research,Inc.| WE'RE SHIPPING your uunet!pcrat!rick| Ask about FaxiX - UNIX Facsimile System (tm) FAX # (201) 389-8963 | Or JetRoff - troff postprocessor for the HP {Laser,Desk}Jet
chip@ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg) (10/27/89)
According to jbayer@ispi.UUCP (Jonathan Bayer): >My only feelings is that it is faster to do a complete backup, verify, >mkfs, and restore of a filesystem than it is to run packdisk. Yes, but once you've cleaned your disk you can't interrupt the procedure until you've finished the restoration. Packdisk can be interrupted. -- You may redistribute this article only to those who may freely do likewise. Chip Salzenberg at A T Engineering; <chip@ateng.com> or <uunet!ateng!chip> "'Why do we post to Usenet?' Naturally, the answer is, 'To get a response.'" -- Brad "Flame Me" Templeton