[Coco] What would OS9 Do?

[Sean]

Just kind of a silly question not totally related to the subject,
what would happen if you ran the 'park' command on one of the
available flash drive systems under OS/9?

On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Joe F <joef6809 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Recently I've started to really dig into the OS9 file system and there seems
> to be a point I'm not understanding. The docs say that each file has a "File
> descriptor" sector that holds information about the file. fair enough. Part
> of the FD is the FD_SEG section which seems to be a table holding up to 48
> entries for the purpose of adding extends to a file when the next sector
> isn't free. So of course I want to know what happens to a heavily fragmented
> file when all 48 slots are full and the system needs to extend the file
> again. I can only assume it would either fail with an error or simply
> re-copy the file to contiguous space, sort of on demand de-frag. Also as the
> system see the table filling up does it start extending the file with more
> empty sectors at the end?
>
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