On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 11:48:46AM +0100, cj wrote: > In article <20150505103028.gg19...@kyllikki.org>, > Vincent Sanders <vi...@netsurf-browser.org> wrote: > > This change should be beneficial to RISC OS users as filecore is > > (apparently) dreadful at this kind of usage pattern. > > I wonder if this is because RISC OS files are 'defragmented' all the > time - I think I am correct in saying that when a file becomes too > big for the contiguous space it currently occupies, it is copied into > a larger block of free space. This means that as the file grows, it > may be regularly being copied somewhere else on the disc, and with > files that may be hundreds of MB in size, this will be slow - very > much so when the drive is an SD card.
Ish. FileCore has supported fragmented files for a long time (ISTR E implements this). It was only earlier versions that didn't support fragmented files and thus had to rearrange on file growth. B.
