Hi Jim

You make some interesting and valid points. In addition to my comment iro some tables benefiting more from defrag'ing than others one could say that this almost comes down to the average access speed on a non-defrag'd file/HD vs. the optimal speed of a defrag'd file/HD (bearing in mind that in most cases the file/HD will not remain defrag'd for long). And I think thats a valid point you make. Anyway, I am no expert so lots of conjecture from me :) and lots of food for thought indeed.

Thanks

Jos


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>It looks strongly to me that fragmentation can be very good, to the point that we would benefit from built-in capabilities to specify/control fragmentation by file and by groups of files.
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