It reminds me of how people used to think all filesystems needed to be explicitly defragmented because of design flaws in FAT, which was designed for floppies (

It reminds me of how people used to think all filesystems needed to be explicitly defragmented because of design flaws in FAT, which was designed for floppies (and wasn't especially well-designed even at that). http://geekblog.oneandoneis2.org/index.php/2006/08/17/why_doesn_t_linux_need_defragmenting http://geekblog.oneandoneis2.org/index.php/2006/08/17/why_do... http://www.howtogeek.com/115229/htg-explains-why-linux-doesnt-need-defragmenting/ http://www.howtogeek.com/115229/htg-explains-why-linux-doesn...