Re: [gentoo-user] Fragmentation of my drives. Curious mostly

[Stroller]

On 28 Nov 2008, at 16:31, Florian Philipp wrote:
> ...
> I'm wondering, why is Windows that bad in this regard? Of course,
> FAT* is bad, but what's about NTFS? It is at least as modern as most
> Linux FS and has some nice features. Surely MS should be capable of
> implementing the same allocation algorithms we use. Or is NTFS
> really not bad in this regard and it's all just that people mix
> experiences with FAT* with NTFS?

No, NTFS *is* really bad in that regard. I've seen it HORRIBLY  
fragmented, and defragging it make a REMARKABLE difference. At least  
the nice thing is that Defrag not only fixes you the problem, but also  
shows it before you run it.

Stroller.