[Leaplist] Linux Advocasy: What they'll miss

[Phil Barnett]

On Wednesday 07 May 2008 03:47:38 pm Chris wrote:

> While I agree that NTFS was an improvement over the FAT
> file systems, I have absolutely seen 120g NTFS partitions
> with only fifteen gig of files - badly fragmented. MS has had
> at least three chances to fix some of the NTFS deficiencies,
> but has so far chosen not to do so.

So have I. But it doesn't break the OS, it just makes it run slow.

I have challenged the repair guys at work who believe that defragging is some 
type of magic bullet to present me with a broken operating system that was 
fixed by defragging. It's been three years now and I have not seen one yet.

But there are performance penalties for letting it get fragmented.

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