moving to the end of disk - is directory order important?

[revrev]

Consider 3 directories A, B and C

dir A is very active and its contents change alot
dir B has moderate activity
dir C's contents are static

Does it make any differance what order I specify the directories when using the -a 6 flag to move these directories to the end of the disk? In this scenario is there an optimal order when repeatedly invoking JkDefragCmd.exe in terms of speed of operation and the work the program has to carry out?

TIA

Trevor

[jeroen]

At the moment all the files in the three directories will be grouped together and treated equally. The order in which you specify the directories on the commandline makes no difference. See the Version 4 scripting language thread for a future development that will make micro management possible.

[revrev]

Thanks for the quick reply.

I'm really pleased with this product. Defragging in the past didn't seem to come with any noticeable performance benefits until I started using JkDefrag.

The commercial vendors of defrag products really go into market speak about the bells and whistles on their products. But they generally avoid mentioning the one thing that is of real importance -  intelligent placement of files on the hard disk.

The scripting language idea sounds great.