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Erik Funkenbusch wrote:
>> Why does NTFS still need to be defrag? Can Microsoft not design a
>> efficient file system?
>
> NTFS is a multi-user filesystem.
Yet predominantly used on single-user systems (or at least single
concurrent user). Surely they can optimize a file-system to their
largest user base?
> Multiuser filesystems actually work better when fragmented because
> sectors are more distributed across the disk.
Utter bull-crap. They definitely won't work *better*, though perhaps
the *impact* is not as horrible if multiple concurrent users are
accessing the disk.
> Multiple users aren't likely to be constantly accessing the exact same
> file, so you get disk head thrashing when files are on opposite ends
> of the disk and multiple processes reading and writing them
> simultaneously.
But NTFS fragments in a most horrible way (with small fragments), so
even during one users time-slice, you'll have lots of disk head
thrashing.
> And i'm not the only one that says this. So do Linux users:
>
> http://www.salmar.com/pipermail/wftl-lug/2002-March/000603.html
The difference being how Linux file systems fragment (among other
things, larger continuous blocks) and the fact that most Linux systems
are actually true multi-user systems (servers). At least at the time
this was written.
Nice attempt at Newspeak, though.
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