Re: [Cooker] OT - Ram Management

[Leon Brooks]

Joshua Jackson wrote:
> I guess it's possible that I just
> have lame hard drives that get slower the more they're used.

No, that's another Windowsism called ``fragmentation,'' in which Windows' (well,
MS-DOS' if you want true honesty) crazy semi-linear allocation scheme results in
bitmap ``holes'' all over a FAT partition, to be followed sooner or later by
files scattered around the disk like spaghetti on an epileptic's plate. The
temporary solution (on DOS/Windows - as if there were any permanent ones...) is
to run defrag.exe to straighten the disk out again. Like ironing clothes, it's a
perennial task.

Ext2FS is much better at keeping its house in order, and I have never even come
close to wanting to defrag a Linux drive. Linux even surpasses Windows/DOS in
allocating stuff (notably short-names) within FAT partitions.

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