goretsky@adelphia.net wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would imagine that web surfing fills the Temporary Internet Files
> directory (usually found beneath the %USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\
> directory) with many small files and subdirectories just from viewing
> web pages. Given the amount of web pages one can visit in just a day
> I can understand why there might be reports of "excessive" disk
> fragmentation.
All of your analysis and description of fragmentation seems accurate,
but I don't think the part about web cache causing fragmentation is on
target. Fragmentation comes when the OS has to either write a large
file in many disjointed segments because of a lack of contiguous free
disk space or because a file gets appended to after some other file is
placed immediately after the end of the first. Neither of these things
are likely to happen when many small files are written (and not appended
to) during web caching. The only likely reason fragmentation would
happen during web caching is if the disk was already badly fragmented
with very little free contiguous disk space.
Rob
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