Re: Why ext3 doesn't need defragmentation ?
> Note: by the way I think the filesystem present in Vista still need to be
> defrag...well, once again a feature that was announced but not delivered by
> Bill (please do not hesitate to correct me on these assumptions as I'm not a
> user of such $$$ product).
No. The NTFS file system does not need defragmentation.
The best explanation I've heard of why they have a defragmenter for it
is that it was considered easier to write a defragmenter than to go
about explaining that FAT32 just sucks.
Stefan
PS: The only time I ran XP's defragmenter for its NTFS filesystem (so as
to make space for Debian using ntfsresize back when it was not yet able
to move files on its own), my wife subsequently complained that her
machine booted (and generally felt) slower ;-)
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