Re: vfat file system extreme fragmentation on multiprocessor
From: Harun Scheutzow
Date: Fri Sep 12 2008 - 18:12:40 EST
For the records:
Both Windows Vista and XP SP3 produce very little or no fragmentation on same FAT partition and same workload (2 tasks writing in 50 MByte pieces, up to some hundred MByte file size). But XP SP3 has a stupid behavior, too, allocating new space always behind previous allocations, even if old files have already been really deleted (not in trash), at least for one session (not tried what happens after reboot). This can result in multi-GByte holes of free space.
Harun Scheutzow
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