From: Bill Morrow - http://thinkpads.com (penzance_at_icanect.net)
Date: Tue Sep 29 1998 - 02:57:58 EDT
Rich..
GREAT and thoughtful response..
Rich_Chong_at_mail.share.org wrote:
>
> >I suggest ONE HUGE partition for those who will be using a 2nd HDD in
> >their machine..
> >helps keep the drive letters from becoming scrambled...
> The problem with one huge partition is when you want to apply fixes or
> upgrades to the base OS. If something goes wrong, your "personal" stuff is
> intact on another logical drive. Makes backups easier to manage too. I also
> like the ability to boot multiple OSes and have common apps, utilities, and
> data, accessible from all of them. WinNN makes it a little tougher with
> registry entries and other junk (DLLs, subcomponents, etc) it throws
> willy-nilly into the base OS subdirectories. But still better than a one
> drive-letter "stew" of stuff (of course, IMO ;-).
>
agreed.. for those who want mulit-OS's...
many do not, they just want stuff where they expect it to be.. :-)
> >
> >not sure if data on "D:" and Apps on "C:" is a good idea..
> mini and mainframe computers split their stuff into multiple logical areas
> (system, application, data, user specific, test, etc);
> Microsoft could learn alot (e.g. component and patch managablity) by more
> seriously following this paradigm.
agree again.. its all the Evil Empire being arrogant..
IMO
>
> >IMO best keep it all close by (physically) so there is less seeking
> >going on..
> A good transaction-oriented prefetch (caching/buffering) management system
> would minimize seeking effects. If D: and C: are on seperate physical
> drives, application/data throughput should actually increase.
it would be nice if MS (EE) would have a better system and more
flexible, but they do not, so we do what is easiest to accomplish the
task at hand..
its a kluge whichever choice one makes..
at least until the OS matures into something really nice..
this is one reason i am suspicious and generally do not like the MS Evil
Empire..
they come off as being arrogant.. unresponsive to the power users i
think.. uhh.. and..
i am at a loss for words here.. :-) so i'll quit for now..
>
> Rich Chong
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