Kinda...
Several points to bring up to keep the flame wars to a minimum.
It depends on your file system.
Journalled file systems are less prone to fragmentation.
All files systems have some vulnerability to fragmentation.
Modern Linux file systems can be defragmted.
The discussion is mostly moot on on solid state drives.
Depending on your RAID the discussion can also be rendered mostly moot.
Ext3 fragmentation was a big problem in my world once upon a time. Now I use kvm on top of raid (10 or 5) on top of SSDs. Now I don't care much.

On Nov 18, 2014 8:54 PM, "Michael Havens" <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:

I remember an east side meeting I went to (or maybe it was you tube) and this is what I remember....
Windows stores data sequentially like so:
11112222333344445555
and if you were to delete 2 and 5 then you were to save more data it would be
11116666333344446666
linux scatters the data around your disk like so:
1111000022220000333300004444000055550000
then you delete 2 and five and then write more data it would look like:
11110000000000003333000044440000000000006666

is my understanding of this correct?
:-)~MIKE~(-:

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