>>>>> "CL" == Callum Lerwick <seg@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: CL> I don't see how they could patent defragging a disk. Lets not get CL> crazy here. ext3 does a decent job of not fragmenting files CL> unnecessarily, can we really gain much more than the current CL> readahead solution? I think the operative word here is "unnecessarily". Desktop hard drives stay full once they fill up. Very few people clear off more than 20% once they've run out of disk space. Linux is better than most at avoiding fragmentation, but no (non-repacking) algorithm works well when only 5-20% disk space remains. I really wish ext3 had a defrag utility which worked. /Benny -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
