Dale schrieb:
I have said myself that Linux does not generally need to be defraged. I have never seen a Linux file system get anything near as bad as windoze. While I don't run windoze I do have family and friends that do so I know how bad it can be. I have seen a lot of windoze be at 40 and 50%. Looked like about every file on the thing was all over the place like bird shot from a shot gun. Sorry, I'm a southern country boy. lol
I'm wondering, why is Windows that bad in this regard? Of course, FAT* is bad, but what's about NTFS? It is at least as modern as most Linux FS and has some nice features. Surely MS should be capable of implementing the same allocation algorithms we use. Or is NTFS really not bad in this regard and it's all just that people mix experiences with FAT* with NTFS?
So I assume 10% or so is not so bad? I didn't think it was but wanted to ask a couple gurus for their opinions.
As far as I know, Windows and e2fsck calculate fragmentation differently (don't know about this tool for reiser you mentioned). So you can not expect these values to be comparable. AFAIK 10% reported by e2fsck are worse than 10% reported by Windows.
