Hi! Trying to kill the keyboard, hekate@intergate.bc.ca produced:
..... I haven't had any issues with it myself, but I know Wolfgang had posted something a couple of times about disk fragmentation on linux, if I
Aeh, I merely translated. The original (in German) is by Kristian Koehntopp.
On Wed, 2 Sep 1998, Howard Arons wrote:
My most recent forced fsck revealed that the partition mounted as /opt contains 13.5on-contiguous files. That sounds high to me, at least from a DOS FAT perspective.
wrong perspective. :-) Well, I'll forward you the text, if anyone else wants it, please mail me. If many want it, I'll put it on the list. The short answer is: The ext2 filesystem does use clever routines so that fragmentation only appears in non-dangerous ways even with concurrently writing processes and 95 0.000000illed disks. The internal readahead and cache algorithms see to it that any existing fragmentation is not hurting the total throughput. -Wolfgang -- PGP 2 welcome: Mail me, subject "send PGP-key". If you've nothing at all to hide, you must be boring. Unsolicited Bulk E-Mails: *You* pay for ads you never wanted. Is our economy _so_ weak we have to tolerate SPAMMERS? I guess not. - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e