[Wolves] defragmentation and linux

Andy Wootton andy.wootton at wyrley.demon.co.uk
Sat Sep 3 01:49:56 BST 2005


--- David Goodwin <dg at clocksoft.com> wrote:

>>I think MS filesystems
>>are the only ones
>>that need regular defragmentation, which is probably
>>because they weren't originally designed
>>    
>>
... (you could have stopped there David)

Actually OpenVMS got quite badly fragmented on volumes that were more 
than 2/3 full and had a lot of small files created on them. There were 2 
types (no surprise there!); file fragmentation and free space fragmentation

>>David.
>>    
>>
Woo



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