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Date:      Tue, 16 Nov 1999 12:50:51 -0800 (PST)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
Cc:        Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: On-the-fly defragmentation of FFS
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911161250040.25805-100000@current1.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9911161245250.12797-100000@fw.wintelcom.net>

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> 
> I think you're missing an obvious point, as the file is written out
> the only place where it is likely to be fragmented is the end, hence
> the reason for only defragging the end of the file. :)

usually, though database files can be written randomly as they are filled
in.





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