File fragmentation has a negative impact on performance, because it
makes reading files much much harder.
Regular defragmentation allows the drive and the OS to make better use
of caching for file reads, among other things.
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ivan von Winlamerberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2001 1:28 AM
>To: NT System Admin Issues
>Subject: RE: Defrag: is it necessary for NTFS?
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>--- "Andrew S. Baker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> What would journaling have to do with Fragmentation?
>
>Thank you for correcting me. The question was incorrect. So, why
>do we worry about all those de-fraggers? I saw all those post
>about scheduling the defrag... it's not that I know in depth about
>NTFS, just asking - may be I miss something important. Just when I
>see all the data from "studies" confirming that defr promotes
>higher uptime, I think that it's mostly achieved thanks to the
>diligent nature of the admins who do a lot of other things on
>time. Like applying security patches on time.
>
>By definition term "Fragmentation" doesn't apply to a journalling
>FS. Especially when we talk about modern HDDs where geometry
>abstraction undergoes so many conversions on a few levels.
>Regardless of OS.
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