> they use all of the space available to them equally (or, pseudorandomly anyway)
This is simply false for many (if not most) filesystems, which preferentially write to blocks near the beginning of the disk. For spinning disks, random distribution of blocks would kill performance.
This is simply false for many (if not most) filesystems, which preferentially write to blocks near the beginning of the disk. For spinning disks, random distribution of blocks would kill performance.