[wplug] File systems and Defrag

[Vanco, Don]

I don't have any earth-shaking data to share - but I can tell you that my TiVo decidedly suffers when the video I archive becomes to "discontiguous".  But then it is a proprietary FS.
 
Don

	-----Original Message----- 
	From: wplug-bounces+don.vanco=agilysys.com at wplug.org on behalf of Teodorski, Chris 
	Sent: Thu 9/16/2004 4:10 PM 
	To: General user list 
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	Subject: [wplug] File systems and Defrag 
	
	

	After a coworker read the article about Sun's new file system ZFS
	(http://www.sun.com/2004-0914/feature/) a conversation about file
	systems started.  The meat of the conversation revolved around why
	Microsoft's OS all have file systems that need defragmenter and how come
	*nix file systems do not.  From what I've read it is not so much that
	*nix file systems do not fragment, but that they are virtually
	unaffected by this fragmentation.  Can anyone shed any additional light
	on this?  The information I've found online seems to contradict itself.
	
	
	
	Chris
	
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