[Sussex] Why Linux doesn't need defrag

[John Crowhurst]

On Thu, August 17, 2006 12:29, linux at oneandoneis2.org wrote:
>
> http://geekblog.oneandoneis2.org/index.php/2006/08/17/why_doesn_t_linux_need_defragmenting
>
> I *think* I got the basic details right, but I'm not absolutely sure,
> so any feedback would be appreciated.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defragmentation

Note that ext2, ext3, minix, xiafs, JFS and XFS have defrag programs
associated with them.

It seems that as Linux and Unix in general passes its file and disk
handling to underlying drivers, some of these formats require
defragmentation.

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John