Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 5 Dec 2001 11:40:28 +0100 | Subject | Re: tuning ext2 or ReiserFS to avoid fragmentation with large files? | From | (Erik Tews) |
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On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 03:17:17AM +0100, Rasmus Bøg Hansen wrote: > On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Erik Tews wrote: > > > If I remember right xfs has got a online-defragmentation utility. So > > have a look at xfs. > > > > I think xfs works different from reiserfs and ext2 when writing files to > > disk which helps avoiding fragmentation. This feature is called > > allocation groups. > > I *might* be wrong, but isn't the allocation-group thing exactly what > ext2/ext3 does? > > I don't know about reiserfs and fragmentation, however.
I am sure that xfs is doing that and reiserfs is not doing that.
But I am not sure about ext2 and ext3.
Reiserfs4 is going to be different, and it will have a online-defragmentation utility. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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