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in thread Configurable IO buffersize?

Reconfiguring the file system to benefit one application without considering the affects of that change on every thing else would be a very drastic step.
I guess the idea wasn't clear. I certainly was not recommending reconfiguring the whole system or even a whole physical disk, just some area for processing these special files. With current technology using 64K for the system's "default" cluster size would be a very bad idea - agreed!

Sorry it didn't work out for you. I figured it was worth mentioning because it was a no code solution.

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Re^6: Configurable IO buffersize?
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Aug 01, 2011 at 22:23 UTC
    just some area for processing these special files.

    I'll say it again. There is nothing "special" about these files; nor the processing be performed on them. You sort all types of files for all sorts of reasons, and my application is not dissimilar.

    Would you install a (say) Sort::External module that required you to repartition your drive so you could re-format a chunk of it with bigger clusters?

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