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[Leon Brooks]

Mike Holland wrote:
> you dont need defrag on a real OS. :) kind-of. Linux doenst tend to
> suffer from those problems for various reasons. (Does NT with NTFS?)

Fragmentation, not much. Journalling, however... a lot of NT sysadmins install
their system stuff on a FAT partition - and never mind the security issues - so
that they have a base from which to begin repairing their machine _when_ the
NTFS "journalling" fails them during an unexpected outage.

BTW, if you dabble in filesystems at all, read last week's LWN page on Tux2fs, a
bulletproofing concept one conceptual level higher than "plain" journalling.

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