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On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 20:34 -0800, Joshua Schmidlkofer wrote: |
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> For a more sustainable situation, switch to XFS [It involved a |
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> backup/format/restore by whatever means you want] In any case, xfs |
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> has a tool called 'xfs_fsr' Which means 'file system reorganizer'. |
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> It does defragmentation, and balances some other stuff too. I run it |
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> weekly on my production servers, and nightly on most of my |
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> workstations. |
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Thus why it is broken by design in my view. A good filesystem should not |
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need to be defragmented. All filesystems will become fragmented over |
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time, but a filesystem which is well-behaved should take minimal, if |
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any, performance loss from it. |
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For what it's worth, I've never had a *single* problem with Ext3, and |
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I've been using it with various distributions since I first started |
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playing with GNU/Linux a few weeks after Fedora Core 1 was released. |
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--Peter |
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