Fragmentation?

Justin Zygmont jzygmont at solarflow.net
Sun Mar 20 00:02:24 UTC 2005


> _Most_ filesystem types of the last quarter-century have a designed-in
> tendency to resist fragmentation, provided that they're not too close to
> 100% full. The only exceptions I know of -- filesystem types that lack
> this feature -- are FAT, NTFS, and VMS's partitions. (Note that the VMS
> design team were hired by Microsoft Corporation to write MS-Windows NT.)

I was just interested to verify more about fragmentation on ntfs, one 
would think that this, being MS's top FS would not have this problem. Also 
the impression i've had was otherwise, I wonder how much of a problem it 
would be compared to its alternative, fat32?




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