James Knott pecked at the keyboard and wrote: > > File systems, such as HPFS and ext2 try to resist fragmenting, by > storing a file in the smallest free space that will hold it and only > fragment if a big enough contiguous free space does not exist. This > means fragmentation is unlikely, until the drive is almost full. On the > other hand, FAT and (IIRC) NTFS simply grab the next available free > space, whether big enough or not and if necessary, additional blocks of > free space, until there's room for the file. This means that it might > save a file in multiple pieces, when it could have simply found a single > block that was large enough. >
Perhaps MS is waiting for another company to innovate this idea so that they can buy the company. Has MS done anything but buy innovation lately and call it their own? Don't remember the last time they came up with anything of their own. -- Ken Schneider SuSe since Version 5.2, June 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
