Disk defragmenter in Linux
David L. Gehrt
dlg at mail.inanity.net
Sat Dec 24 04:48:01 UTC 2005
> Tim wrote:
> > Tim:
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> > Mike McCarty:
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> > I was under the impression that the directory structure was recorded in
> > manner that's different from how the files are stored.
>
> You may know something that I do not. I thought everything was inodes.
If you look in the Linux header files you can see the structure of a
directory entry in a directory. A directory is a structured file but
one treated differently by the OS because the directory bit is set in its
inode. But like other files, in some sense, it is just bits on the
platter, albeit with some structure, as such a directory IS subject to
possible fragmentation.
dlg
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