Re: vfat file system extreme fragmentation on multiprocessor

[H. Peter Anvin]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> I don't think fat filesystems have any concept of reserving space for
> expanding files.  It's a pretty simple filesystem after all designed for
> a single cpu machine with a non-multitasking OS (if you can call DOS an
> OS).  Space tends to be allocated from the start of the disk wherever
> free space is found since otherwise you would have to go searching for
> the free space, which isn't that efficient.

Well, you can always do that in-memory.

	-hpa

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