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Date:      16 Aug 2005 09:45:49 -0400
From:      Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>
To:        Lei Sun <lei.sun@gmail.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: disk fragmentation, <0%?
Message-ID:  <44d5oeov02.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
In-Reply-To: <d396fddf050815164938c84cae@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <d396fddf05081421343aeded9d@mail.gmail.com> <200508151320.j7FDKCVq025507@clunix.cl.msu.edu> <20050815203917.GA75533@xor.obsecurity.org> <d396fddf050815164938c84cae@mail.gmail.com>

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Don't top-post, please.

Lei Sun <lei.sun@gmail.com> writes:

> Then, my other question is,
> 
> If the file space allocation works like Glenn said earlier, how come
> with the exact same files from 2 different installations using the
> exact procedures, can result in different fragmentation?
> 
> in the atacontrol raid1 failure case, /dev/ar0s1a: ... 0.5% fragmentation
> in the new build case, /dev/ar0s1a: ... 0.0% fragmentation
> 
> That doesn't seems to make a lot of sense.

There are lots of possible explanations, including (non-harmful) race
conditions.  Is there some reason you care?



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