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