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From: Florian Philipp <lists@××××××××××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Fragmentation of my drives. Curious mostly
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 16:32:14
Message-Id: 49301CF3.9070303@f_philipp.fastmail.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Fragmentation of my drives. Curious mostly by Dale
1 Dale schrieb:
2
3 > I have said myself that Linux does not generally need to be defraged. I
4 > have never seen a Linux file system get anything near as bad as
5 > windoze. While I don't run windoze I do have family and friends that do
6 > so I know how bad it can be. I have seen a lot of windoze be at 40 and
7 > 50%. Looked like about every file on the thing was all over the place
8 > like bird shot from a shot gun. Sorry, I'm a southern country boy. lol
9
10 I'm wondering, why is Windows that bad in this regard? Of course, FAT*
11 is bad, but what's about NTFS? It is at least as modern as most Linux FS
12 and has some nice features. Surely MS should be capable of implementing
13 the same allocation algorithms we use. Or is NTFS really not bad in this
14 regard and it's all just that people mix experiences with FAT* with NTFS?
15
16 >
17 > So I assume 10% or so is not so bad? I didn't think it was but wanted
18 > to ask a couple gurus for their opinions.
19 >
20
21 As far as I know, Windows and e2fsck calculate fragmentation differently
22 (don't know about this tool for reiser you mentioned). So you can not
23 expect these values to be comparable. AFAIK 10% reported by e2fsck are
24 worse than 10% reported by Windows.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Fragmentation of my drives. Curious mostly Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] Fragmentation of my drives. Curious mostly Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk>