[Malvern] Fragmentation.

[Geoff Bagley]

A certain Windows98 box with which I am familiar is full of assorted (rubbish) 
programmes and is as slow as hell.

I decided to DEFRAG it, to see what that would do.  It has a 40GB  disk drive, 
and the defragmentation  process threatens to outlive me.

Why does Linux not need defragging ?  What is it in the Linux file system that 
keeps law-and-order without the need for periodic  defrags ?

Geoff.