F16 unusable while writing to pendrive

[Tom Horsley]

On Sat, 17 Dec 2011 18:49:48 -0800
Joe Zeff wrote:

> Actually, the fact that Linux drives don't need regular defragging has 
> nothing to do with the file system.

Actually the fact that linux drives don't get defragged is more
because there are no defragging tools than because there wouldn't
be a performance benefit to having the sectors in fragmented files
moved to adjacent chunks of disk.