F16 unusable while writing to pendrive

[Joe Zeff]

On 12/18/2011 01:17 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote:
> Is that what you are saying?.

Did you follow the link I gave?  It's what the explanation there 
implies.  However, I'm guessing that the system only knows how big your 
first write is, not how big the file's going to get, partially because 
the program itself may not know this.  And, instead of going to the 
beginning of the area allocated, it goes roughly to the middle, to leave 
room for the preceding file to grow as well as room in case you want to 
add something to the head of the file.  It's not perfect, and files can 
still fragment, but the probability is that it won't happen anywhere 
near as often as it does under Windows.