Allocating data When a new file or directory is created, ext2 must decide where to store the data. If the disk is mostly empty, then data can be stored almost anywhere. However, clustering the data with related data will minimize seek times and maximize performance.
allocating data when a new file or directory is created ext2 must decide where to store the data if the disk is mostly empty then data can be stored almost anywhere however clustering the data with related data will minimize seek times and maximize performance