On Sun, 18 Jun 2000, CH wrote:
> IF that's true then on the boot to linux showing drives such as _._%
> non-contiguous keeps increasing. Isn't non-contiguous mean fragmentation?
> If so, then how is it just MS sickness?
>
> CH
>
If I understand it right, the way Linux writes files keeps the files
contiguous, but not the file system - at least untill the disk is almost
full. Between the way Linux uses memory for disk buffers, and the way it
writes files, you normally don't see any performance loss from a
non-contiguous drive. Now, MS will fragment files if there are any open
spaces in the drive, even if there is a contiguous space on the drive
farther out. I don't know if this is true for the NT file system, but
that is the way the FAT file system works.
Mikkel
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