Proposed additions to NTFS structure.
Ethan Olson
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Proposed addition:
Non-growing
Goal:
Increased program access time and drive reliability.
Reason:
Programs often access a group of files that are of the "non-growing" nature.
If they are in a similar area of a drive volume, then access time is
increased. Also, segregation of fragmenting and non-fragmenting files
improves physicyal surface reliability as the only function occuring nearby
is a read function. If a server or workstation experiences infrequent
updates or alterations to the operating system, then those files that never
change in size can all be placed side by side in the begining of a volume to
form one large contiguous cluster set that will never experience
fragmentation and will never need defragmentation.
Defragmentation issues:
Obviously, when an operating system gets updated, the file can only be
deleted, thus leaving a gap in the clustered file set. This will either be
filled with a file of exactly the same size (unlikely) or will be filled
with a fragmentation of fragmentations of files that are free to oscillate
size. However, after a clean defragmentation, all the "Non-growing" files
will be once again properly ordered and remain unsettled until the next OS
or Program update occurs as long as the defragmentation program recognizes
the "Non-growing" attribute.
-Ethan Olson, MCP
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