Best filesystem to use for a specific type of application

[Avi Greenbury]

Greg Zeng wrote:
> imo http://www.phoronix.com seems to pretend that NTFS does not exist.

Well, it's a Linux orientated site, that's hardly more surprising than
a Windows one benchmarking filesystems and not mentioning XFS. 

> One advantage of NTFS is the ability to defrag the HDD (not needed
> for SSD drives).  Grudgingly, Linux seems to admit that magnetic
> drives have fragmentation & speed access variations.

I was under the impression that, in general, the model under Linux
is that the filesystems are defragmented using idle I/O time. Is this
not the case?

-- 
Avi.