Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2009 mails)

[juergen.braukmann@xxxxxxxxxxxx (juergen.braukmann@xxxxxxxxxxxx)]

Ole Kofoed Hansen wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Bryan S. Tyson wrote:
> 
> > I am curious to know if there is any such thing as fragmentation
> > problems or a need for defragging the hard drive in Linux.
> >
> > The reason I wonder is that I have never seen or heard any mention of
> > disk fragmentation as a concern with Linux.
> >
> > If disk fragmentation is not an issue in Linux, can anyone explain why?
> 
> I am not anywhere near an expert, but I've been told that the ext2
> filesystem handles defragging itself, so there should be no need
> to use an extra program for that.
> 
Not realy defragging itself, but reservating bigger straps of diskspace
in advance, so files do not get fragmented as in DoS. The result is: do
not care. For those who are brave, keep daily backups and love
reinstalls <grin> there are some tools out there, for defragging ext2,
seen it mentioned here, but I never cared.
How about ReiserFS on that topic?

Juergen

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