Because these blocks are contiguous on the disk, there's better read and write performance for them.

由于这些块在磁盘上是连续的，其读取和写入的性能就会更好。

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In particular, if a bunch of new data is being appended to a single file, XFS can allocate a single, contiguous region on disk to store this data.

尤其是，如果要将一批新数据添加到单一文件，XFS可以在磁盘上分配一个单一、相邻区域来储存这些数据。

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Partitions are containers that consist of contiguous sectors on the disk; partitions are defined by simple data structures.

分区是由磁盘上相邻扇区组成的容器，分区是由简单数据结构定义的。

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