Re: [Q] Does vfat implementation suffer from fragmentaition?

["Peter Teoh" <htmldeveloper@xxxxxxxxx>]

the answer is yes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table

and in the writeup under Fragmentation:

The FAT file system does not contain mechanisms which prevent newly
written files from becoming scattered across the partition.

On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 9:32 PM, pradeep singh
<pradeep.rautela@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> Okay, I may be embarrassing myself here but still i ll dare to ask.
>
> Does FAT16/FAT32 implementation in linux(i.e VFAT) suffer from the
> same fragmentation issues, faced by a standard FAT* filesystem on a
> Windows Box?
>
> Thanks,
>       --Pradeep
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