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 > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
