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?
>
There was a huge discussion on one of the linux-related
lists this past week. Basically Linux has a different way
of handling drivespace file allocation. Linux splits up the
drivespace into "superblocks" and pretty much tries to
stick the whole of a file into one contiguous section of
the drive. M$ doesn't do that. M$ just sticks as much of
the file as it can into the first open spot on the drive,
no matter how much or how little of the file it can fit in
there and then moves on and does so again, until the file
is completely written to the drive. This has a tendancy to
really fragment files. Also, Linux doesn't try to keep all
the files as close to the start of the drive the way M$
does. Linux splits up the drive into "superblocks" and has
multiple indices showing where everything is located.
It's a totally different file system. You really have to
read up on it to understand it. Try going to the LDP (Linux
Documentation Project) and reading up on the 2nd Extended
File system.
John
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