--- "Andrew S. Baker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> File fragmentation has a negative impact on performance, because
> it
> makes reading files much much harder.
>
> Regular defragmentation allows the drive and the OS to make
> better use
> of caching for file reads, among other things.
OK, thank you. This would be true for very old types of
HDDs/controllers/linear_geometry and FS. Then NTFS wouldn't be a
journalling FS in the modern sense, prolly a top level layer. In
any event all I need to know: does it need defragmentation really
or just to boost economy? I really doubt.
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