On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 10:56 -0500, George Henke wrote:
> It is all somewhat reminiscent of the old MFT days when everything ran in
> partitions.  There were all kinds of inefficiencies introduced when we ran
> things in fixed partitions then. [...]

> When MVT came along it removed those constraints

One of you Old Ones (and I'm thinking of Shmuel in particular) correct
me on this, but didn't bare MVT have a horrendous core fragmentation
issue?  My poor recollection is that HASP initiators essentially
reintroduced "partitions" to MVT to help beat that problem.

-- 
David Andrews
A. Duda and Sons, Inc.
david.andr...@duda.com

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