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 Post subject: What is the factor/formula?
PostPosted: September 27th, 2018, 9:38 
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Dear Experts,

One question came to my mind once about How HDD/OS writes, i was thinking about How or Who decides this Specific File (for example) will be written to that specific sector?
Anyone knows?

is it based on a formula/OS/FS? or how its been calculated?

sometimes you see the HDD is filled with data from the beginning then Empty Space (zeros) then again data

i was wondering how?

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 Post subject: Re: What is the factor/formula?
PostPosted: September 30th, 2018, 2:46 
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None? :heeey:

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 Post subject: Re: What is the factor/formula?
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That formula is well hidden inside the filesystems (or more specifically the filesystem implementations). Every filesystem has its own formula. And that's the main job of a filesystem to decide where things go. For some filesystems there are even tools like defragmentation which can change the position afterwards.


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 Post subject: Re: What is the factor/formula?
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sourcerer wrote:
That formula is well hidden inside the filesystems (or more specifically the filesystem implementations). Every filesystem has its own formula. And that's the main job of a filesystem to decide where things go. For some filesystems there are even tools like defragmentation which can change the position afterwards.



Spildit wrote:
And to add to this the drive itself will decide what LBA (sector) will belong to each physical location ...

Meaning the file system will tell what LBAs a file will be stored to and the drive itself will "translate" those LBAs to physical place on platter.


Any Base/Ref. to all of this? prefer if Technical Doc. not some sort of essay written by some dump or none-tech. person.

Am asking in general because am doing some research about something else, but this Question came to my mind

I tried reading many articles/docs none was helpful..

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 Post subject: Re: What is the factor/formula?
PostPosted: October 3rd, 2018, 4:49 
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In case of Linux filesystems, you can get the sourcecode on www.kernel.org :

For FAT:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/ke ... 9-rc6#n263

For EXT2:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/ke ... =v4.19-rc6
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/ke ... 9-rc6#n259


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