Hallo Marck,
On Sat, 24 Feb 2001 01:33:17 +0000 GMT (24/02/2001, 09:33 +0800 GMT),
Marck D. Pearlstone wrote:
BC>> This has me a little worried. I seem to recall that people who
BC>> regularly compress their folders have had problems in the past
BC>> after a disk defrag.
I compress my folders every couple of days. I defrag my HD's about once
a month. I have never had any problems after a defrag. Just for the
record.
MDP> Here's a software engineering take on the issue.
MDP> While I can understand the need for regular scandisk operations, I
MDP> wonder at the need for /regular/ defrags. Defrag by hand when the
MDP> system starts to feel a bit sluggish is my personal preference.
Correct. About once a month here, as I donwload, install, uninstall,
delete etc a lot. Folder compression gives me over 1MB each time. I
like to have my files defragged, as I do notice a performance
slow-down (I have a speed of a mere 366MHz to search through 2GB of of
a not-too-fast Maxtor), and fragmented files are not as "neat" (from a
German perspective of having every "neat and clean" all the time - my
mother taught me well), and also, I think I read that file
reading/writing errors are more likely on fragmented files than on
those that are not.
MDP> I have to be skeptical of a defrag being done when the OS (esp. Win9x)
MDP> has been "up" for a while.
On this I agree. Before defrag, reboot, and then close all apps that
run in the background (SETI@Home, anitivirus, firewall, of course any
internet connections, internat.exe, PGP Tray, etc) and let Defarg do
it's thing without interference. I guess if anybody has had problems
after a defrag, there might have been a program running in the
background, and hey, this is Windows, so don't believe that seperate
threads are always seperate threads.
MDP> These are operating systems whose stability decreases the longer
MDP> they run for. I must say that this isn't quite as true of NT/2k.
It definitely is for C-Win98.
MDP> Nevertheless, I know which kind of operation is going to be
MDP> inherently more stable between TB's folder compression and an OS
MDP> defragmentation. Clue: it's not the defrag ;-).
Then it must be SETI@Home. Crashes less often than windows. ;-)
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