Sir Robin,
Excelent explanation, me and the other newbies (i`m sure of it) we thank you
for it, i finally understood fragmentation process in windows and unix/linux
file system. Thank you again !
Regards from
newArTs.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robin Turner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2003 2:56 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] defragmentation
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > No, but it would be very usefull if the most experienced ppl on this
mail
> > list
> > would give us an explanation or some usefull links on this matter, why
ext
> > doesn`t need defragmentation ...
> > Thanks in advance for your understanding.
>
> It's very simple, and not exclusive to Linux - it goes back to the early
> days of Unix.
>
> The best way to think of it is that your filesystem is one of those
> folders that has a separate plastic envelope for each page. Imagine
> you're a secretary who has to store documents in such a folder. To
> start off, you put in the first document at the beginning, then the
> second document after it, and so on.
>
> The difference comes when you bin some documents (delete files). If
> you're a Unix/Linux secretary, and you have a ten-page document, you
> look for the first empty space in the folder that has at least ten
> envelopes and put your document there. If you're a Windows secretary,
> you start filing the document in the first empty space you find, even if
> it only has three envelopes. You then look for another empty space, and
> file the next few pages of your document, and so on. Eventually, the
> documents in your foder are so spread out and mixed up that you have to
> take them all out and put them back in some kind of order
> (defragmentation). Stupid, isn't it?
>
> Sir Robin
>
> --
> "Some guy breaking into a government computer system and wreaking havoc
> makes for a more interesting movie plot than some guy writing device
> drivers. It's hard to work in a good 10-minutes car chase scene with some
> guy who writes device drivers..." - tjc, post to LWN
>
> Robin Turner
> IDMYO
> Bilkent Univeritesi
> Ankara 06533
> Turkey
>
> www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin
>
>
>
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