As far as I know directory entries are spread all across the whole hard disc - not necessarily at the beginning of the hard disc.
Can I collect+group+re-arrange these directory alltogether at the beginning of the hard disc resp. the fastest hard disc zone?
If not: Can this feature be added to the next release?
Thank you
Thomas
Directories with few files exist as records in the MFT. Directories with more files exist as clusters containing Index records, which may be spread over the disk. As with your other question today, I'm not sure what benefits this would bring, if indeed it were possible.
Directories with few files exist as records in the MFT. Directories with more files exist as clusters containing Index records, which may be spread over the disk. As with your other question today, I'm not sure what benefits this would bring, if indeed it were possible.
Sometimes reading large directories takes a long time, because the directory is spread over multiple extents and takes multiple reads to load. In the past, this was a feature of Norton Utilities defrag. I don't know whether technology has overtaken us or not - but it seems like reading a large directory structure could take a lot less time and fewer read head movements if directories were defragmented too.
Hi Bill,
Although defrag is mentioned in the topic title, Thoste asked if the indexes could be moved to the start of the disk. I don't know whether Defragger defrags multi-clusterrun indexes or not, I don't see why not.