-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Sunday 2008-02-17 at 14:28 -0500, Fred A. Miller wrote: ...
It seems to be that if Vista automagically defrags in the backround, there's still some fragmentation occuring on NTFS partitions. I used OS/2 & HPFS, for many years and also provided 3rd level OS/2 support at IBM Canada. One thing I recall was that a bit map of disk space was maintained, so that the smallest piece of free space that could hold the file, plus a bit extra would be used. This method would resist fragmenting, so long as a reasonable amount of free space was available.
Hehehehe.....I was just ready to quote all that, and you beat me to it. :) In REAL world use, NTFS DOES fragment easily and "heavily" when used as a mail server anyway. I will admit that Vista does seem to be better than XP. But, XP will and DOES suffer from performance gradation due to NTFS being fragmented.
Because fragmentation is the fault of the operating system, not of the filesystem type. A bad implementation would fragment ext2/3 just as easily. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHuLXstTMYHG2NR9URAgoaAJ40ivSoRtPmiTwe0sw6G+X8W1WLEACfXeVL vcpAcQ2VyHLiFyUPF+llY40= =NK8y -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org