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SubjectRe: Maximizing and maintaining fragmentation
Timothy Miller <miller@techsource.com> wrote:
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> IMPORTANT QUESTION: When writing to an mmap'ed file, will ext3
> rearrange blocks on disk in order to reduce fragmentation, or will it
> leave the blocks exactly where they are, just overwriting the data?

The blocks will not change.
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