Date: Wed, 09 Dec 1998 01:30:50 -0800 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Matt Behrens <matt@zigg.com>, "Mark S. Reichman" <mark@borg.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: UFS defragmenter and/or partition resizer? (Wishful thinking?) Message-ID: <199812090930.BAA29154@root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 09 Dec 1998 16:34:53 %2B1030." <19981209163453.H12688@freebie.lemis.com>
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>Well, it would be nice to say that UFS doesn't need defragmentation, >but it's not quite true. In practice, though, it's much less of a >problem than with Microsoft. And unfortunately we currently don't >have a defragmenter. Actually -current does dynamic defragmentation; that's what the "doreallocblks" stuff is all about and why it was so important to get it working. There is a Usenix paper on this by Keith Smith at Havard; sorry I don't have a URL. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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