Diskeeper to introduce on the fly defragmentation

[Yousuf Khan]

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/article2/0,2845,2351641,00.asp

 

[Rod Speed]

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.

 

[Yousuf Khan]

Yousuf Khan wrote


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

 

[Rod Speed]

Yousuf Khan wrote

Rod Speed wrote

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.

 

[Arno]

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/article2/0,2845,2351641,00.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

 

[calypso]

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/article2/0,2845,2351641,00.asp

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

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