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The Problem: Poor Performance

This lesson discusses why the performance of UNIX's old file system was so poor.

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The problem with the file system mentioned in the last lesson was that performance was terrible. As measured by ...

If B and D are deleted, the resulting layout is:

As you can see, the free space is fragmented into two chunks of two blocks, instead of one nice contiguous chunk of four. Let’s say you now wish ...

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