Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3574 mails)

[Philipp Thomas <philipp.thomas@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 14:08:53 -0500, James Knott wrote:

> You mean stuff like this?

No, sorry, I gave the URL to the english wiki but had the german wiki in
mind. If I'm in good mood, maybe I'll translate the part I was thinking
about and post that.

> there's still some fragmentation occuring on NTFS partitions.

Fragmentation occurs on *any* file system, it's the question of how much
that's interesting and under which conditions it occurs.

> 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.

I used OS/2 quite a while and I also do know a bit about it. NTFS is a
decendant of HPFS. Remember that NT started as a next generation OS/2.

Philipp
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