Quote:
Originally Posted by raymor
If you're using DOS or minix. Serious operating systems have serious filesystems, which are smart about where they put blocks. Rémy Card figured out the algorithm to avoid fragmentation before he released the ext filesystem in 1992.
Seriously, that's a problem that was solved twenty years ago.
|
It was designed to "cope" with file fragmentation, you have a system running long enough and it's going to have some fragmentation and ext4 was supposed to support online defragmentation.