Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sat 19th Aug 2006 00:55 UTC
"It's a question that crops up with depressing regularity: Why don't Linux filesystems need to be defragmented?. Here's my attempt at answering once and for all. Rather than simply stumble through lots of dry technical explanations, I'm opting to consider that an ASCII picture is worth a thousand words." Read the explanatin here. Elsewhere, "Why is Linux Successful?"
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2005-11-24
He doesn't fail to mention it...
From the article: "Fragmentation thus only becomes an issue on Linux when a disk is so full that there just aren't any gaps a large file can be put into without splitting it up. So long as the disk is less than about 80% full, this is unlikely to happen."