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Originally Posted by Edward M. Grant
Fragmentation exists on all writeable file systems. If you need to write 10k to the disk and all you have are 10 1k blocks, your file will be fragmented unless your file system automatically moves the other files around to defragment it.
And some Unix file systems like ZFS are fragmented by design.
As I said, Windows is worse, but Linux and Unix disks still get fragmented. I was responding to your claim that 'there is no fragmentation on Linux / Unix Os using mechanical hard drives,' which is blatantly false.
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Ok, let me rephrase what I said, which looks it was bad English or I took my own experience and technical lingo when explaining.
When I said no fragmentation I meant no significant amount of fragmentation. Not enought that will affect performance. Something that NTFS does! How about that?
Real world, practical terms, performance perspective, Linux and Unix system do not suffer of fragmentation issues. Not significant amount of it. C'mon, all people know it. I used to format my work's PC at HP every year or so, because that. Not anymore at my current job; mine has SDD drive ;-) ...
I've never seen in my life, not at work, a Linux or Unix server, running on regular hard drives, with fragmentation issues or that needs to be defrag. They run wonderful for years. It's a fact.
Thats why I would not recommend anyone Windows over Linux or Mac as a regular PC, one without solid state devices. Only exceptions are for those who play games or need specific Windows software which counterpart is absent on Mac or Unix, which happens sometimes.
But granted, Windows is very popular and arguably, easy to use. So many software companies still write games and programs for it. Most companies also use Windows as Os for their client PCs; Office dominates the market.