From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 18 02:07:10 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id CAA09582 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 18 Nov 1995 02:07:10 -0800 Received: from casparc.ppp.net (casparc.ppp.net [194.64.12.35]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id CAA09571 for ; Sat, 18 Nov 1995 02:07:03 -0800 Received: from ernie by casparc.ppp.net with uucp (Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0tGk5x-000I1MC; Sat, 18 Nov 95 11:02 MET Received: by ernie.altona.hamburg.com (Smail3.1.29.1 #3) id m0tGjUO-00001eC; Sat, 18 Nov 95 10:23 MET Message-Id: From: hm@altona.hamburg.com (Hellmuth Michaelis) Subject: Re: Disk De-Fragmenter...? To: chuckr@glue.umd.edu (Chuck Robey) Date: Sat, 18 Nov 1995 10:23:12 +0100 (MET) Cc: terry@lambert.org, brandon@tombstone.sunrem.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Chuck Robey" at Nov 17, 95 09:20:35 pm Reply-To: hm@altona.hamburg.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 730 Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk >From the keyboard of Chuck Robey: > Terry, I have a friend who got relocated to work in Utah, for a company > that had as a major product a VMS disk defragmenter. My friend was brought > in to help in doing one for Unix. I know this to be true, I don't know > if it was FFS, but there must be SOME kinda truth behind this. Recently i saw an ad for a disk fragmenter for HPUX - it always looks like someone is trying to sell a noop product to uninformed people. For shure, one can make money with it but i doubt it will get the customer any benefit. hellmuth -- Hellmuth Michaelis hm@altona.hamburg.com Hamburg, Europe (A)bort, (R)etry, (I)nstall BSD ?