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On Friday 01 October 2010, Florian Philipp wrote: |
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> Am 01.10.2010 03:12, schrieb Adam Carter: |
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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 |
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> > can 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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> To prevent fragmentation, try to always keep a decent amount of free |
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> space on each partition. That way, the FS driver can allocate space for |
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> new files without too much fragmentation (a fragment every 2 MB or so |
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> doesn't really hurt performance). |
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you obviously never used a tape drive... |
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