On Friday 15 February 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Friday 15 February 2008, Dale wrote: > > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > On Thursday 14 February 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote: > > >> That aside, how would gaps *between* files ever translate into > > >> fragmentation unless the author of that particular piece of > > >> software managed to kill his very last brain cell? > > > > > > Oops. I had a brain fart there. > > > > You two are so funny. > > Thank you. We try to please :-)
I second that. Africa makes you so. I mean funny and trying to please. ;-) > > > I found this too: > > http://www.oo-software.com/home/en/products/oodefrag/ Seems > > someone is trying to make money. I have also read that most > > Linux file systems do this automatically somehow. After doing my > > test, I tend to agree. So why have a commercial product for > > this? Is it just money? > > Yeah, pretty much just money. Microsoft's business model is to trap > the market, never perform at any level higher than mediocrity, and > create an ecosystem that needs thousands of support apps just to > keep the OS limping along. Then shaft all of them with > vendor-lockin > > Coping with file fragmentation has to be one of the easiest > algorithms around, it isn't even hard. Write a file, and look to > see how the blocks are distributed. If it can be improved, then do > so. Otherwise leave it as is > > But then again, if you have written a file system so that > everything is just mushed onto the same device, all higeldypigeldy > with no sane structure at all ... then I suppose you would need > stuff like defrag to come along once a week and save your ass :-) Back in the days when I still used DOS, one certainly wanted to defragment periodically. The system became significantly more performant for a while. On Linux/Unix, I never bothered. Uwe -- Informal Linux Group Namibia: http://www.linux.org.na/ SysEx (Pty) Ltd.: http://www.SysEx.com.na/ -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
