On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 02:37:10 GMT, Freeride wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 06:05:55 -0500, Erik Funkenbusch wrote:
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>> 2) Vista does in fact automatically defrag it's drives. The defrag
>> process, by default, runs after installation, and then, again by default is
>> set to run at 4am every sunday. This is the default configuration. If you
>> don't believe me, read this:
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> Why does NTFS still need to be defrag? Can Microsoft not design a
> efficient file system?
NTFS is a multi-user filesystem. Multiuser filesystems actually work
better when fragmented because sectors are more distributed across 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.
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
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