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On Friday 01 October 2010, Adam Carter wrote: |
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> > Your harddisk seeks, everything is slow. |
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> > So does that then mean that my options are; |
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> 1. Defragment, so there is less seeking |
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> 2. Get an SSD |
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> Since 2 is too expensive for a decent size drive, is there anything i can |
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> do about 1 without a backup and restore operation? Or will the |
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> fragmentation be very small on reiser3 anyway (i mount with notail) so I |
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> should just accept things as they are. |
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every fs fragments over the course of time. Some more, some less. So as long |
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as you have harddisks: |
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get used to the seeking penalty. |
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