Fresh vs. rotten ext3
Did you ever hear sentences like “Linux/Unix filesystems are superior, to stuff like NTFS, let alone FAT32 - you don’t even need a defragmentation tool.”?
That statement may be technically correct, since fragmentation is really rare with ext3 - but what about spatial locality of reference - files that are often accessed at nearly the same time being spread over the whole disk, thus causing long access times due to head positioning?
There is (AFAIK) no way to (programmatically) optimise / sort a Linux filesystem in a way that for example all init scripts, binaries, libraries, etc. reside in nearby sectors on a harddisk. Those tools do exist in the Windows world (built into those 3rd party defragmenters).
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