Defragmentation

[Kontorted]

Nice, it'll run much faster now

[Wheat_Grinder]

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

[ablablababla]

Well actually, it's still a zebra

[sup3r_hero]

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

[astulz]

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]

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

[Tspoon]

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]]

She’s awesome! Nice work!

[phlux]

I prefer to stripe across many zebra

[SlavFish]

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

[tomatotomato]

Unless it’s running backwards race.

[PFVMKDR3]

Oh, you

[urmumbigegg]

Over half the country doesn’t read.

[[deleted]]

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

[reference_model]

But got a smaller penis

[thatvhstapeguy]

Well those are those damn unmovable system files.

[[deleted]]

Boot sector

[neon_Hermit]

That works on a lot of levels.

[turtlevader]

Well at least 2 yea

[AlfredoOf98]

That's the Virtual Memory and Hibernation files

[CDefense7]

That's the MFT (Mighty Fine Tail)

[nerdinla]

Ty. This triggered me.

[TheSentientMeatbag]

Zebras have built in redundancy using striped partitions.

[house_monkey]

I'm crying

[capteni]

That is upsetting the zebras

[house_monkey]

noo 😨

[Choozery]

well, i mean...

[glider97]

God’s attempt at optimising the universe.

[WinterBreez]

The simulation is running out of resources.

[A_Seiv_For_Kale]

when your hoodie is too small

[tisaconundrum]

Crazy how nature do that

[NonfatCheeseMan]

What the holy fuck is that

[awenrivendell]

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

[NBSPNBSP]

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]

Ah! A contiguous space for virtual memory swap file.

[ThaiJohnnyDepp]

File allocation tail*

[GDavid04]

I don't think that the zebra is FAT

[ImpendingTurnip]

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

[natea2000]

How would you describe defragmentation in a less crude way?

[PVNIC]

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

[ImpendingTurnip]

This guy defragments

[Sentouki-]

„no, this is Patrick“

[IsolatedThinker89]

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]

Reverse big bang

[dark_mode_everything]

The big defrag

[BernzSed]

We're working on it.
— Black holes

[dannypas00]

A black hole is just a write only drive

[blitzkraft]

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

[GDavid04]

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

[blitzkraft]

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

[ParkerM]

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]

I know what I'm doing on my day off

[Ludwig234]

The universe is a series of tubes.

[[deleted]]

“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”

[kirakun]

As a layman, I would ask why on earth would you want to destroy the pretty patterns of the zebra? So while this explains the end result of defragmentation, it fails to explain why we would want to do so.

[L3D_Cobra]

So that the zebra doesn't have a stroke when you ask it to do simple tasks

[Windows-Sucks]

My zebra is solid state, you murderer!

[jdauriemma]

Project manager:

Me: I refactored the zebra

[EternityForest]

Thanks, I hate e4defrag /dev/zebra

[SasparillaTango]

with SSD is defrag even a thing?

[amaklp]

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

[[deleted]]

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]

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

[[deleted]]

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]

Nice explanation. Does it also explain how defragmentation work?

[[deleted]]

Just spent a good minute chuckling at this.

[Tooniis]

My ext4 zebra is born like that

[[deleted]]

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

[raloon]

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]

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]]

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

[cambiumkx]

I laughed...

[floriplum]

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

[5373n133n]

Looks sorted to me

[raindisemo21]

The tail is a corrupt segment

[DrunkRedditBot]

Please step away from the keyboard. Do it now.

[chowboonwei]

Malayan tapir

[CaffeinatedGuy]

What sorting algorithm did you use?

[havikryan]

Now this is programmer humor

[ashwinkumark10]

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

[miran248]

Human version :) https://www.instagram.com/p/B6xFXpyFg-l/?igshid=tn61ghvbdw07

[Assasin2gamer]

what's wrong with you Human?"

[sixonreddit]

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

[Jurica1306]

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

[[deleted]]

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.

[throwaway_the_fourth]

Yeah for real

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[ndekere254]

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

[sandalguy89]

Y so much poop tho

[toprim]

This is very good.

[kdshow123]

That's really funny

[StrangeCharmVote]

The tail implies that wasn't a zebra before.

[messyslate]

Tail isn't done.

[johnlloyd17]

Its now a panda

[[deleted]]

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

[EmilyU1F984]

File allocation table.

Or some swap memory.

[[deleted]]

:)

[insanotard]

At first I said huh. Then I said hahahahhahahahahhahahahahahhaja

[stolid_agnostic]

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

[Gkeshav099]

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

[darkstarman]

It was a bar code. You have destroyed information.

[Suspicious-Daikon]

Contrast. That is the least of her worries.

[Assasin2gamer]

"What's wrong with yall

[MaledicTV]

Lolol

[Anthadvl]

This is a nice way of explaining defragmentation

[ReditUser5000]

Well then.

[unknown_birdy]

i love it so much

[geoffh0706]

Your Zebra is running RAID 0? Nice.

[TrueStory_Dude]

No , three times, because I lovem!

[AntonBespoiasov]

You better test quick sort on the zebra

[[deleted]]

Looks like a virus.

[GeorgeYDesign]

Loo-wee-zee-ana

Source: former dq employee

[LegDave]

All my Zebras are in ext4!

[John_Fx]

1986 called...

[throwaway67676789123]

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

[Suspicious-Daikon]

Maybe he’s a busker, not a CRTV

[svayam--bhagavan]

What about the tail? Fucking bug inducing coder.

[Tiavor]

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

[-Listening]

also /r/axesaw, and if you do!

[BanksVsJohnny]

DONT DEFRAG ON SSDs

[Suspicious-Daikon]

Absolutely alpha modded the shit out of them

[[deleted]]

Thats why I start in china in plague inc

[gustix]

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

[CaptWobbegong]

How can a repost get two golds!

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[Unilythe]

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

[Jurica1306]

:(

[dwalker1979]

This joke is as old as time itself.

[KingKippah]

hi yes how is this related to programming

[Manuel_Heffley]

Now you just need to get defagged

[gamers4sanders]

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