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On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 02:07:30PM -0700, Ignacio Solis wrote:
> This reminds me of the early norton days. When you could select 3 or 4 types of
> defrag. Like defrag "empty space" so all data would be moved to the beginning
> of the disk, or defrag files, where all files would be put into contiguous
> space. At some point in the development of the NT defrag I thought they were
> actually going to keep a use-frequency of files, and the defrag putting the
> most commonly used files together, but that never happened.

Huh, I don't remember that from Norton.

Either way, the frequency of use would be interesting, but you wouldn't
want to put all those files together.  You'd try to spread those out over the
platter so that at any one time, you're near a hot file.

-Phil/CERisE