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>Disk de-fragmenting, for example, was a Windows-only phenomenon. How? Defragmenting is needed because random access on hdd is much, much slower than sequentia
by nootropicat 7y ago
>Disk de-fragmenting, for example, was a Windows-only phenomenon.
How? Defragmenting is needed because random access on hdd is much, much slower than sequential. It's not something the os or fs can fix.
- asymptotically2 7y agoext4 places files further apart on disk so fragmentation happens much less often.