> On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:13:40 +0200 > Eduardo Morras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > No, if you check a NTFS disk after some work, it's heavily > > fragmented. As you fill it and work with it, it becomes more and > > more fragmented.
How did you measure it? AFAIK the percentage fragmentation figures given by windows tools and fsck, aren't measured on the same basis. On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:41:22 +0200 (CEST) Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > it's just like FAT, because nothing is done to prevent fragmentation. > > if NTFS needs to allocate block, it simply get first free. > > consider writing to 3 files, one block at a time to each. > > you will get block arranged like this (where 1 is file 1's data,2 is > data from file 2 and 3 from file 3): > > 123123123123123123123123213213 This is just untrue. I don't much like Microsoft, but I don't think there's much to be gained by out-fudding them. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
