On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 02:05:41 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: > > But if you set m > 0, the filesystem will become full sooner, so > > fragmentation will begin sooner (for non-root processes). > > Uh, really? I wouldn't think so. With m > 0, there is much space left, > in large contiguous chunks, even though the user cannot use it all. But > there should be no difference between writing files in terms of > fragmentation. The reserved stuff acts just like a quota, at least > that's what I always thought.
Yeah, that makes sense, so why should the reserved setting affect fragmentation at all, unless you write so much data that the filesystem would be full with a larger m? In that case, I'd prefer fragmentation to a failed write. -- Neil Bothwick Don't just do something, sit there!
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