Unix vs Windows - with reason(s) — OZONE Asylum, home of the Mad Scientists

This page's ID: 29607

Edit Post

Who can edit a post?	The poster and administrators may edit a post. The poster can only edit it for a short while after the initial post.

Your User Name:
Your Password:
Login Options:	Remember Me On This Computer

Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	I was under the impression that the very nature of the inode/vnode structures used in the virtual file system instead of those file systems with huge separate index tables was the main factor making nix systems more resistant to fragmentation than the file systems used by Windows. nix file systems still have fragmentation issues, just caused by far more infrequently occurring circumstances. As for directory listing speed, both Explorer and Finder have entirely different algorithmic complexity for doing it than you'd have if you did it in the shell on the same system. The reasons for that have to do with exactly what they do with the files (they actually do much more than just list them) and also with how they do indexing and caching. For example, they have to read icon data for files which the shell doesn't need. -- var Liorean = { abode: "[sigrotate][url]http://liorean.web-graphics.com/[/url]\|[url]http://codingforums.com/[/url]\|[url]http://web-graphics.com/[/url][/sigrotate]", profile: "[url]http://codingforums.com/member.php?u=5798[/url]"}; Loading...
Options:	Enable Slimies Enable Linkwords

Edit Post