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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Member since:2006-08-19
He explains why he's using FAT: "Since both Windows and Linux users make use of FAT filesystems, if only for USB flash drives, this is an important filesystem - unfortunately, it suffers badly from fragmentation."
I would imagine he also chose FAT as an example because it's relatively simple compared to filesystems like NTFS.
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2005-07-06
Time to upgrade for this guy. Any modern Windows installation should use NTFS by now.