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From: Graeme Tait <U@webcom.com>
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To: Steve Friedrich <SteveFriedrich@hot-shot.com>
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Subject: Re: fragmentation
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Steve Friedrich wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 24 Sep 1998 15:47:41 +0800, Peter Kok wrote:
> 
> >what is the meaning of
> >frags?
> >
> >and how do you do defragmentation?
> 
> See my recent email regarding books also, but here's a short answer...
> 
> You're probably aware that DOS and Winblows use "clusters" of sectors,
> due to poor design choices by IBM/Microsoft/Intel in the initial design
> of the PC.  Information is stored in disk sectors which are frequently

<snip>


I thought that apart from the issue of a large "minimum allocation unit" 
in MS-DOS, there was the problem of individual files getting spread over 
non-contiguous (and often widely separated) regions of disk. How does BSD 
manage this?


-- 
Graeme Tait - Echidna

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system when it's (mostly) down.


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