Date: 22 Oct 2002 20:11:12 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What do you do about your FFS fragmention? Message-ID: <44ptu2qajj.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <20021022094814.GA8138@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> References: <20021022120108.Q212-100000@bigb3server.bbcluster.gr> <20021022094814.GA8138@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi>
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Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> writes: > On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 12:06:33PM +0300, BigBrother wrote: > > > > > > I know how the FFS (filesystem) works, and that it really does an excelent > > job in allocating clusters as local as possible. But it is also true that after > > some period of extensive use of it, the filesystem get fragmented, and > > results in severe degration of speed. > > > > One way is to dump/restore everything which is very painfull thing. > > > > ------- > > So, what do you do [except dump/restore] to defrag the FFS after some time > > of extensive use? Or you dont care for the degration in speed? > > Nope. You're thinking of Windows filesystems. So long as you don't > fill a filesystem to 100% or more, it will have sufficient space > reserved to be able to automatically defragment itself. No user > intervention required. The key point is to realize that "fragmentation" on a FFS filesystem is unrelated to the phenomenon called "fragmentation" on a MS filesystem. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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