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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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If you had enough free space on your partition when you created the |
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mp3-files there, I don't think fragmentation is an issue here. The files |
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likely never grew in size which would cause fragmentation. |
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Of course, the situation changes again when the free space on your file |
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system was already heavily fragmented even if there was enough of it. It |
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all depends on your usage pattern of that disk to make an educated guess |
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if that is true. |
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The good thing about hard disks is that you can usually hear whether |
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they are seeking or reading sequentially. If you hear a lot of seeking |
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on sequential operations, it is time to reformat the partition or at |
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least erase and recreate the affected files. |
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Hope this helps, |
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Florian Philipp |
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