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Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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> Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: |
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>>>>> [...] what would be the best way to defrag it? |
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>>>> By not defragging it. |
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>>>> [...] |
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>>> I don't buy into that argument and never did. Every few months I |
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>>> copy the |
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>>> whole HD to another one and then back to counter fragmentation (ext3) |
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>>> and |
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>>> the system becomes noticeably faster after doing it (speed increase in |
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>>> emerge --sync for example.) Maybe it's not fragmentation but rather |
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>>> related |
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>>> files being more closely together after I do this. |
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>> How exactly do you copy the files? [...] |
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> I simply boot from the Gentoo DVD and rsync to another ext3 partition, |
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> wipe the current filesystem and then rsync back. |
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OK, I once again verified that fragmentation seems to be a big issue |
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even on Linux. I just migrated to ext4, and in order to do that I had |
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to rsync, format and rsync back. The result is similar to the last time |
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I did this (over 8 months ago): |
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emerge --sync takes 15 seconds (at least 3 minutes yesterday) |
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update-eix takes 2 seconds (20 seconds yesterday) |
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And I don't believe it's due to ext4. It's a nice speed-up from ext3, |
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but not THAT nice. |
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