> Compared for example windows NT NTFS, linux ext2fs
> seems to be more error prone and also and I wonder
> why filesystem is not planned so that directory
> listing would come with minimal head movement.
>
Probably because nobody has though it _that_ necessary to actually sit down
and implement something like this.
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