On Friday 15 February 2008, Dale wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Thursday 14 February 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote: > >> That aside, how would gaps *between* files ever translate into > >> fragmentation unless the author of that particular piece of > >> software managed to kill his very last brain cell? > > > > Oops. I had a brain fart there. > > You two are so funny.
Thank you. We try to please :-) > I found this too: > http://www.oo-software.com/home/en/products/oodefrag/ Seems someone > is trying to make money. I have also read that most Linux file > systems do this automatically somehow. After doing my test, I tend > to agree. So why have a commercial product for this? Is it just > money? Yeah, pretty much just money. Microsoft's business model is to trap the market, never perform at any level higher than mediocrity, and create an ecosystem that needs thousands of support apps just to keep the OS limping along. Then shaft all of them with vendor-lockin Coping with file fragmentation has to be one of the easiest algorithms around, it isn't even hard. Write a file, and look to see how the blocks are distributed. If it can be improved, then do so. Otherwise leave it as is But then again, if you have written a file system so that everything is just mushed onto the same device, all higeldypigeldy with no sane structure at all ... then I suppose you would need stuff like defrag to come along once a week and save your ass :-) -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- [email protected] mailing list
