final release - p2p or mirrors

[Chris Kloiber]

On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 19:37, Jim Cornette wrote:

> I was wondering if a CDROM created from a fragmented retrieval would 
> hunt all over the place for bits and pieces of files. Those motors of 
> hunting operations from CDROMs can be quite noisy.

I don't believe it works like that. If a CD/DVD is fragmented on the
hard drive, the hard drive will seek like mad when writing the CD/DVD,
but the resulting CD/DVD will be identical to the original. Any
thrashing on the burned copy will be same as the original.

-- 
Chris Kloiber