Sounds to me more like a recipe for on-the-fly disaster creation. But
I'm cynical.

Yousuf Khan

Diskeeper Tech to Prevent Fragmented Files - CPUs, Boards & Components
by ExtremeTech
"Diskeeper plans to introduce a file system filter driver later this
year that will eliminate most file fragmentation before it actually
occurs, company executives said Friday."
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/...2351641,00.asp

Yousuf Khan wrote

> Sounds to me more like a recipe for on-the-fly disaster creation.

No reason why it has to be if its done properly.

Corse the much more fundamental question is why bother
about fragmentation with modern fast seeking drives.

> But I'm cynical.

> Diskeeper Tech to Prevent Fragmented Files - CPUs, Boards & Components
> by ExtremeTech
> "Diskeeper plans to introduce a file system filter driver later this
> year that will eliminate most file fragmentation before it actually
> occurs, company executives said Friday."
> http://www.extremetech.com/article2/...2351641,00.asp

Rod Speed wrote:
> Yousuf Khan wrote
>
>> Sounds to me more like a recipe for on-the-fly disaster creation.
>
> No reason why it has to be if its done properly.


Anything that takes over from the time-tested file system drivers is
asking for trouble. Microsoft itself takes several iterations before it
gets its own stuff right.

Yousuf Khan

Yousuf Khan wrote
> Rod Speed wrote
>> Yousuf Khan wrote

>>> Sounds to me more like a recipe for on-the-fly disaster creation.

>> No reason why it has to be if its done properly.

> Anything that takes over from the time-tested file system drivers is asking for trouble.

Nope, perfectly possible to debug them properly.

> Microsoft itself takes several iterations before it gets its own stuff right.

MS has always had a problem with getting things right.

Yousuf Khan <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Sounds to me more like a recipe for on-the-fly disaster creation. But
> I'm cynical.

> Yousuf Khan

> Diskeeper Tech to Prevent Fragmented Files - CPUs, Boards & Components
> by ExtremeTech
> "Diskeeper plans to introduce a file system filter driver later this
> year that will eliminate most file fragmentation before it actually
> occurs, company executives said Friday."
> http://www.extremetech.com/article2/...2351641,00.asp

Well, condisering that most UNix filesystems do not have any
significant fragmentation, better file placement (i.e. a
better filesystem driver) may achive this and still be
reasonably reliable. However it properly is the OSes job
to do this, not that of an addon-product.

Arno

Yousuf Khan <(E-Mail Removed)> kenjka:
> Diskeeper Tech to Prevent Fragmented Files - CPUs, Boards & Components
> by ExtremeTech
> "Diskeeper plans to introduce a file system filter driver later this
> year that will eliminate most file fragmentation before it actually
> occurs, company executives said Friday."
> http://www.extremetech.com/article2/...2351641,00.asp

It would be much wiser to implement a deduplication file system filter
driver...

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