On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, Chris Wright wrote: > another thing that would be cool would be fs learning. instead of using > some generic defragmenting algorithm, perhaps having it reorganize the hd > so that frequent files are near the center, and frequently changing files > (source) are left with some space to grow, would generally help overall in > access times. OMG you just described that Windows98 *thing* which runs from the (userland) task scheduler and keeps track of which apps you run/open the most, and does the appropriate reorganising when you defrag. Cheers. -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ IRC Channel: irc.openprojects.net / #kernelnewbies Web Page: http://www.kernelnewbies.org/