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On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:25:00 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: |
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> > > Don't reduce it to 0, the lower this value is, the more |
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> > > fragmentation you will get. |
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> > Why is that? I would have expected more usable space to reduce the |
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> > need for fragmentation. I routinely use 0 on non-system filesystems. |
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> I read this often, and to me it seems to make sense. When a file system |
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> is nearly full, writing a last big file will make the file being |
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> cluttered along all those tiny places where some free space is still |
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> left. And this probably already happens to some extent before the |
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> filesystem is completely full. |
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But if you set m > 0, the filesystem will become full sooner, so |
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fragmentation will begin sooner (for non-root processes). |
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Neil Bothwick |
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