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SubjectRe: Ext2 defragmentation
HI!

> > How necessary is it to defragment ones ext2 partitions? It just hit me
> > that defragmentation is very important under the Wintendo filesystem.
>
> It's not as important. But... I had an idea for an ext2 defrag daemon,
> e2defragd, which would take advantage of _disk_ idle time to reorganize
> blocks, while the filesystem was mounted. This daemon would be a good
> candidate for disk optimizations like moving frequently-accessed files
> to the middle of the disk in addition to background defragging.

There's one usefull thing that could be done with e2defrag: putting
directories at the beggining of the disk exactly in the order find /
would use. One line hack, but e2defrag just does not work for me.
Pavel
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