James Knott wrote:
Anton Aylward wrote:
Lubos Lunak said the following on 02/15/2010 12:02 PM:
On Monday 15 of February 2010, James Knott wrote:
Lubos Lunak wrote:
As demonstrated also in this thread, there is a widely accepted myth that defragmenting is completely useless with Linux, and as such nobody has been really bothered enough to write any reasonably usable generic tool.
Given that modern file systems are fragmentation resistant, please explain how fragmentation is a problem on Linux.
Well that isn't a explanation. In fact the guy admits he's a KDE developer and not a kernel hacker. I was, though not any more. kernel hacker that is. Disk drivers and file systems were my focus back then. Different technology, UNIX, not Linux, but some principles still hold.
The impression I got after reading his link is he was talking about grouping related files to minimize head movement, which is not the same as defragmentation. I have to wonder how he could be a developer and not know the difference. As for interleaving, I recall when that was necessary, because the computer couldn't keep up with disk data.
Please do not take offense - but - maybe the developer is from India. The reason I say this, is because, in Nov, my wife lost her IT job, Business Analyst, to India. Thankfully, she found another job, in a smaller company, by mid-Dec. However, she found out that more layoffs were coming 1/1 and 1/16 - to - guess - where - INDIA. Duaine -- Duaine Hechler Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ Tuning, Servicing & Rebuilding Reed Organ Society Member Florissant, MO 63034 (314) 838-5587 dahechler@att.net www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com -- Home & Business user of Linux - 10 years -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org