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Re: fragmentation
- To: Steve Friedrich <SteveFriedrich@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: fragmentation
- From: Graeme Tait <U@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 11:52:51 -0700
- Cc: freebsd <freebsd-questions@xxxxxxxxxxx>, Peter Kok <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Organization: Echidna
- References: <199809241407.KAA02432@xxxxxxxxx>
- Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@xxxxxxxxxxx
Steve Friedrich wrote:
>
> On Thu, 24 Sep 1998 15:47:41 +0800, Peter Kok wrote:
>
> >what is the meaning of
> >frags?
> >
> >and how do you do defragmentation?
>
> See my recent email regarding books also, but here's a short answer...
>
> You're probably aware that DOS and Winblows use "clusters" of sectors,
> due to poor design choices by IBM/Microsoft/Intel in the initial design
> of the PC. Information is stored in disk sectors which are frequently
<snip>
I thought that apart from the issue of a large "minimum allocation unit"
in MS-DOS, there was the problem of individual files getting spread over
non-contiguous (and often widely separated) regions of disk. How does BSD
manage this?
--
Graeme Tait - Echidna
Be kind to Windows - don't boot an operating
system when it's (mostly) down.
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