From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 14 8:31:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8438037C211 for ; Wed, 14 Jun 2000 08:31:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e5EFVXE20638; Wed, 14 Jun 2000 08:31:33 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 08:31:33 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Robert Badaracco Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: disk fragmentation Message-ID: <20000614083133.Z18462@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <3947D86A.45EBF979@typeline.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <3947D86A.45EBF979@typeline.com>; from rjb@typeline.com on Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 03:09:30PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Robert Badaracco [000614 08:28] wrote: > How does FreeBSD deal with disk fragmentation? Are there utilities to > run > for optimization or does the system manage this as it runs? FFS maintains a very optimal freelist making it quite difficult to fragment. It will also relocate blocks while running to defrag itself. Very few situtations actually warrant a defrag under FFS, however when you do need to you'll have to backup and restore to defrag. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message