Hi, On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 11:27 AM, dmccunney <dennis.mccun...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> P.S. Who invented defrag? I want to say Norton (etc) ... >> (Yeah, I know, others probably independently discovered it all too.) > > Nope: See http://www.diskeeper.com/fragbook/chapter6.htm#ch6a > > The first commercial one seems to have been a product for Digital > VAX/VMS systems, dating from 1986.
I would be surprised if no one had done it before then. But then again, those DEC people were *very* smart and had an extremely huge influence on the industry in almost every way (e.g. OSes, compilers, cpus). > One of the goals for the ext4 FS in Linux is enabling defragmentation. > extFS, NTFS and the like are less subject to fragmentation than FAT, > but no FS is immune to it. Last I checked, latest Windows would schedule to defrag your drive "behind the scenes" approx. once a week. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
