"Rod Speed" wrote in message
...
wrote
Vir Campestris wrote

The Windows guys chose to put all their files near the same end of the
disk to reduce seeks when the disk is nearly empty. Linux has a
different approach - they are scattered all over the place.

Longer seeks but less of them, due to less fragmentation.

But when very few very large files are accessed serially now
except with media files where the access speed is entirely
determined by the media play speed, it is very far from clear that less
fragmentation actually matters much anymore and
it is clear that any modern system does a hell of a lot more
accessing all sorts of files at quite a high rate, even if that
is only the internet cache files and cookies etc etc etc, it
makes a lot more sense to minimise the time that happens.
Total wait time is thus less.

Not necessarily.

Ignore the prick FFS.

Ohhh, i'm typing to the prick.
But why am I killfiled?