Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 5 Nov 2001 00:50:35 -0800 | From | Mike Fedyk <> | Subject | Re: [Ext2-devel] Re: disk throughput |
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On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 09:47:01AM +0100, Jan Kara wrote: > If I understood well the code it tries to spread files uniformly over the > fs (ie. all groups equally full). I think that if you have filesystem like > /home where are large+small files changing a lot your change can actually > lead to more fragmentation - groups in the beginning gets full (files > are created in the same group as it's parent). Then if some file gets deleted > and new one created filesystem will try to stuff new file in the first > groups and that causes fragmentation.. But it's just an idea - some testing > would be probably more useful... >
Shouldn't it choose another block group if the file won't fit in the current one? - 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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