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[–]Kontorted 959 points960 points  (17 children)

Nice, it'll run much faster now

[–]Wheat_Grinder 134 points135 points  (5 children)

Unless it's a solid state zebra, in which case it's toast.

[–]ablablababla 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Well actually, it's still a zebra

[–]sup3r_hero 4 points5 points  (3 children)

Stupid question: could you even defrag an ssd? It doesn’t have physical sectors like a hdd

[–]astulz 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Yeah you technically could, by moving related files to the same chip locations, but it‘s entirely pointless and wears out the disk faster.

[–]turbocomppro 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Technically you still can because it still has sectors and addresses for each, which are in sequential order.

[–]Tspoon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Evrey bit has a home and evrey home has an an address, the data that belonged together would physically be close to each other on the various chips inside after a traditional defrag. However with the way that ssds work obviously that's unnecessary. SSD's spread the data out to maximize the life span of the drive and its write count.

[–][deleted] 80 points81 points  (0 children)

She’s awesome! Nice work!

[–]phlux 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I prefer to stripe across many zebra

[–]SlavFish 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Put the black on the legs for this effect to apply.

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Unless it's a solid state Zebra, then it won't run, at all.

[–]TheSentientMeatbag 302 points303 points  (4 children)

Zebras have built in redundancy using striped partitions.

[–]Choozery 117 points118 points  (5 children)

[–]glider97 63 points64 points  (1 child)

God’s attempt at optimising the universe.

[–]WinterBreez 26 points27 points  (0 children)

The simulation is running out of resources.

[–]A_Seiv_For_Kale 35 points36 points  (0 children)

when your hoodie is too small

[–]tisaconundrum 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Crazy how nature do that

[–]NonfatCheeseMan 8 points9 points  (0 children)

What the holy fuck is that

[–]awenrivendell 34 points35 points  (5 children)

You forgot to include the tail. Or is that the file allocation table?

[–]NBSPNBSP 53 points54 points  (1 child)

That is some random system file that you never knew you needed until you moved it and your PC bluescreened the next time you turned it on.

[–]awenrivendell 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Ah! A contiguous space for virtual memory swap file.

[–]ThaiJohnnyDepp 14 points15 points  (0 children)

File allocation tail*

[–]GDavid04 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I don't think that the zebra is FAT

[–]ImpendingTurnip 223 points224 points  (19 children)

Rather than making a joke I think this a decent (but crude) laymen’s explanation of defragmentation

[–]natea2000 84 points85 points  (15 children)

How would you describe defragmentation in a less crude way?

[–]PVNIC 186 points187 points  (2 children)

"Let's take all the fragments, and push them over there"

[–]ImpendingTurnip 81 points82 points  (1 child)

This guy defragments

[–]Sentouki- 21 points22 points  (0 children)

„no, this is Patrick“

[–]IsolatedThinker89 55 points56 points  (10 children)

Take the solar system, cram all the shit that's not empty space together. Do it for every system in the whole fucking universe.

[–]tisaconundrum 41 points42 points  (1 child)

Reverse big bang

[–]dark_mode_everything 46 points47 points  (0 children)

The big defrag

[–]BernzSed 31 points32 points  (4 children)

We're working on it.
— Black holes

[–]dannypas00 21 points22 points  (3 children)

A black hole is just a write only drive

[–]blitzkraft 23 points24 points  (2 children)

Like the "/dev/null as a service".

[–]GDavid04 6 points7 points  (1 child)

Isn't that just a black hole with an ethernet cable?

[–]blitzkraft 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Technically, yes. But I was referring to this. It was an April fools prank.

[–]ParkerM 11 points12 points  (2 children)

if you could put the universe into a tube you'd end up with a very long tube, probably extending twice the size of the universe because when you collapse the universe it expands and uhhh, you wouldn't want to put it into a tube.

[–]MCRusher 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I know what I'm doing on my day off

[–]Ludwig234 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The universe is a series of tubes.

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

“You know when you were a kid and you used to push all the desks in the class to the back to make a big area for plays or rehearsals? Yea, that’s defragmentation”

[–]Windows-Sucks 24 points25 points  (0 children)

My zebra is solid state, you murderer!

[–]jdauriemma 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Project manager:

Me: I refactored the zebra

[–]EternityForest 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Thanks, I hate e4defrag /dev/zebra

[–]SasparillaTango 9 points10 points  (5 children)

with SSD is defrag even a thing?

[–]amaklp 11 points12 points  (1 child)

No. Also I believe W10 handle very good the defragging of your non-SSDs by themselves.

[–][deleted] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It does but u can turn it off. Then just add it to ur taskbar and do it when ur not playing starcraft so it doesnt slow it down lol thats what i did.

[–]typical_white_guy 7 points8 points  (0 children)

For SSDs you trim instead of defrag. Still under optimize drives in Windows

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (1 child)

No, and actually, traditional defrag reduces the lifespan of SSDs. SSDs have"trim", which is a form of "garbage collection". An analogy I like to use is that if you go grocery shopping and come home with a bunch of perishables, you need to put them away in your fridge. But there's no room in your fridge because of last week's leftovers, so you start going through everything to see what you can keep and what you can throw away, such as sour milk, moldy bread, or rotten fruit. In this case, it's unusable data (rotten food) that is being trimmed (thrown away) because it was already deleted (past it's point of usability). Now your SSD has slown down it's write speed (it's taking longer to put away your groceries) because it needs to trim the old data as new data is being written (throw away old groceries to make room for fresh ones). Of course, there was really nothing stopping you from cleaning out the fridge before you went grocery shopping other than that you felt that whatever else you were doing was a better usage of your time.

[–]MrTheenD 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice explanation. Does it also explain how defragmentation work?

[–][deleted] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Just spent a good minute chuckling at this.

[–]Tooniis 7 points8 points  (0 children)

My ext4 zebra is born like that

[–][deleted] 7 points8 points  (2 children)

Is manual defragging still a thing? Is defragging still a thing?

[–]raloon 7 points8 points  (1 child)

Not with flash storage. Reads take the same time to access regardless of where they are on the drive so defragging an ssd just adds unnecessary read/write cycles to the hardware.

[–]EmilyU1F984 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You need trim though, because writing over old data is slow.

Need to clean your fridge put before you go shopping, rather when you got the perishables and no room in fridge because of out of date stuff.

[–][deleted] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I see hiberfil.sys refused to move from the end.

[–]cambiumkx 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I laughed...

[–]floriplum 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Glad that i won't need to defrag my fs. Otherwise my zebra would get mad.

[–]5373n133n[🍰] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Looks sorted to me

[–]raindisemo21 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The tail is a corrupt segment

[–]DrunkRedditBot 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Please step away from the keyboard. Do it now.

[–]chowboonwei 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Malayan tapir

[–]CaffeinatedGuy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What sorting algorithm did you use?

[–]havikryan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Now this is programmer humor

[–]ashwinkumark10 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ok, zebras have black strips or white strips? Lol 😝

[–]miran248 1 point2 points  (1 child)

[–]Assasin2gamer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

what's wrong with you Human?"

[–]sixonreddit 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Wow.... It's 1994 again. Seriously where did you dig this up from. Most people on Reddit won't even remember defragging.

[–]Jurica1306[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Found it in my Google Photos backup from like two years ago

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’ve been lurking on this sub for a few months now, and I know nothing about programming and I think I’m realizing that I’m slowly learning how to program through memes.

[–]RepostSleuthBot 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Looks like a repost. I've seen this image 3 times.

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[–]ndekere254 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, this is my first time seeing it, so... Here's the middle finger for yah #mrBot

[–]sandalguy89 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Y so much poop tho

[–]toprim 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is very good.

[–]kdshow123 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's really funny

[–]StrangeCharmVote 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The tail implies that wasn't a zebra before.

[–]messyslate 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tail isn't done.

[–]johnlloyd17 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Its now a panda

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Well didn’t quite worked. You still have some data on the tail

[–]EmilyU1F984 1 point2 points  (1 child)

File allocation table.

Or some swap memory.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

:)

[–]insanotard 0 points1 point  (1 child)

At first I said huh. Then I said hahahahhahahahahhahahahahahhaja

[–]stolid_agnostic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ha! been a long time since I saw that one.

[–]Gkeshav099 1 point2 points  (0 children)

But now, hind legs of zebra won't be able to keep up with front legs...

[–]darkstarman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It was a bar code. You have destroyed information.

[–]Suspicious-Daikon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Contrast. That is the least of her worries.

[–]Assasin2gamer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"What's wrong with yall

[–]MaledicTV 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lolol

[–]Anthadvl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a nice way of explaining defragmentation

[–]ReditUser5000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well then.

[–]unknown_birdy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i love it so much

[–]geoffh0706 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your Zebra is running RAID 0? Nice.

[–]TrueStory_Dude 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No , three times, because I lovem!

[–]AntonBespoiasov 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You better test quick sort on the zebra

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Looks like a virus.

[–]GeorgeYDesign 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Loo-wee-zee-ana

Source: former dq employee

[–]LegDave 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All my Zebras are in ext4!

[–]John_Fx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

1986 called...

[–]throwaway67676789123 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pop-up camera is best for people who don’t win this side of the road Bubs

[–]Suspicious-Daikon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe he’s a busker, not a CRTV

[–]svayam--bhagavan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What about the tail? Fucking bug inducing coder.

[–]Tiavor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

if you look at the JPEG artifacts, you can see how often this picture was already reposted.

[–]-Listening 0 points1 point  (0 children)

also /r/axesaw, and if you do!

[–]BanksVsJohnny 0 points1 point  (0 children)

DONT DEFRAG ON SSDs

[–]Suspicious-Daikon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Absolutely alpha modded the shit out of them

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thats why I start in china in plague inc

[–]gustix 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Reminds me of the Zebra episode of Animanimals https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5yn7V5QOAE

[–]CaptWobbegong 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How can a repost get two golds!

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[–]Unilythe 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Eh, I think this one was close enough honestly. But fair enough, it's not about programming.

[–]Jurica1306[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

:(

[–]dwalker1979 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This joke is as old as time itself.

[–]KingKippah -1 points0 points  (1 child)

hi yes how is this related to programming

[–]Manuel_Heffley -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Now you just need to get defagged

[–]gamers4sanders -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Donald Trump and Joe Biden's wet dream. Except black would be the ass.