I think they invented Microsoft Bob

--- Ken Schneider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> James Knott pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
> > 
> > File systems, such as HPFS and ext2 try to resist
> fragmenting, by
> > storing a file in the smallest free space that
> will hold it and only
> > fragment if a big enough contiguous free space
> does not exist.  This
> > means fragmentation is unlikely, until the drive
> is almost full.  On the
> > other hand, FAT and (IIRC) NTFS simply grab the
> next available free
> > space, whether big enough or not and if necessary,
> additional blocks of
> > free space, until there's room for the file.  This
> means that it might
> > save a file in multiple pieces, when it could have
> simply found a single
> > block that was large enough.
> > 
> 
> Perhaps MS is waiting for another company to
> innovate this idea so that
> they can buy the company. Has MS done anything but
> buy innovation lately
> and call it their own? Don't remember the last time
> they came up with
> anything of their own.
> 
> -- 
> Ken Schneider
> SuSe since Version 5.2, June 1998
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