Maybe it is because FAT filesystem wasn't well designed from the beginning and defrag was a workaround to solve performances problems.
-fred- On Aug 27, 2008, at 5:29 PM, prad wrote:
something that has puzzled me for years (but i've never got around to asking) is how does *nix get away without regular defrag as with windoze. fsck is equivalent to scandisk, right? so when you delete files and start getting 'holes', how does *nix deal with it? -- In friendship, prad ... with you on your journey Towards Freedom http://www.towardsfreedom.com (website) Information, Inspiration, Imagination - truly a site for soaring I's _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questionsTo unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED] "
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