Does windows need a new FS?

Zaphrod said:
Yes, which also means that for files smaller than the cluster size that the space on the disk is wasted.
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That's bad, but only if you have millions of absolutely tiny files, otherwise the gains from doing that outweight the loss in disk space (which is, let's face it, cheap storage).
 
philjohn said:
That's bad, but only if you have millions of absolutely tiny files, otherwise the gains from doing that outweight the loss in disk space (which is, let's face it, cheap storage).
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Right, which is why the default cluster size in NTFS is 4kb so that effectively means that there will be very little wasted space but also virtually no room to expand files and so more fragmentation.
 
Zaphrod said:
Right, which is why the default cluster size in NTFS is 4kb so that effectively means that there will be very little wasted space but also virtually no room to expand files and so more fragmentation.
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Windows will try and find a gap of a much bigger size than this, at least it did with Windows 9x. ContigFileAllocSize could be altered to the desired size (in KB). I believe the default was 512KB. Basically it would try and allocate that much space per file fragment. Obviously if there wasn't that much space available it would fill in the gaps, and obviously files bigger than 512KB could still get fragmented (into 512KB or larger chunks).

I'm actually beginning to wonder if this applies to NTFS or not, I can't actually remember.
 
andrewdodd13 said:
Windows will try and find a gap of a much bigger size than this, at least it did with Windows 9x. ContigFileAllocSize could be altered to the desired size (in KB). I believe the default was 512KB. Basically it would try and allocate that much space per file fragment. Obviously if there wasn't that much space available it would fill in the gaps, and obviously files bigger than 512KB could still get fragmented (into 512KB or larger chunks).

I'm actually beginning to wonder if this applies to NTFS or not, I can't actually remember.
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Windows 9x didn't support NTFS, only FAT32, which is crap :D
 
To be fair its fine for home users although having to defrag often gets annoying.. Although I dont believe this is the case when using a SSD drive.

It becomes a lot more advanced when used in large businesses with all it command line options and security settings..
 
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