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I don't think either FAT32 or NTFS suffer this problem, they allow metadata to become fragmented instead. Certainly a different design philosophy to the unixy f

• magicalhippo 4y ago
  NTFS most definitely suffers from this[1]. We ran into it with a customer who had a particularly fragmented database file. IIRC it's due to a combination of relying on fixed-sized "pages" to hold fragment pointers and a limited number of page indirections. That is the root page can point to a sub-pages, which again can point to sub-pages, but those sub-sub-pages have to point to the actual fragments. Or something along those lines. [1]: https://support.microsoft.com/en-au/topic/a-heavily-fragmented-file-in-an-ntfs-volume-may-not-grow-beyond-a-certain-size-da1c0dfd-a5a1-90b4-4bf7-b65b13ef9d35 https://support.microsoft.com/en-au/topic/a-heavily-fragment...