Date: Mon, 20 Nov 1995 17:27:38 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: smf@pdm.kla.com (Scott MacFiggen) Cc: questions@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Disk De-Fragmenter...? Message-ID: <199511210027.RAA02573@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <9511200925.ZM8366@buford.wring.pdm> from "Scott MacFiggen" at Nov 20, 95 09:25:30 am
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> IRIX comes with a defragmenter (file system reorganizer): /usr/etc/fsr > > DESCRIPTION > fsr improves the organization of mounted file systems. The > reorganization algorithm operates on one file at a time, compacting or > otherwise improving the layout of the file extents (contiguous blocks of > file data) while simultaneously compacting the file system free space. > > Is it just the Berkeley fast filesystem that doesn't need a defragger or > all Unix filesystems in general? UNIX file systems which are not extent based. Clearly, since "fsr" operates on file extents, it assumes an extent-based FS exists. UFS is not extent based. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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