Steve Dobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> However a large file which requires many blocks also requires the disk heads
> to seek many time toaccess them. If the block size is small then more head
> seeking is required and performance goes down. (There's a lot more to block
> positiong than this.)
No it does not. There is nothing that says that smaller blocks
must automatically lead to a greater tendency towards fragmentation.
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