On Friday 28 November 2008 17:08:03 Stroller wrote: > I understood that ReiserFS's trees could become out-of-balance, > resulting in performance loss, and that the way to deal with this was > to tar the contents of the drive to another file-system and then untar > them back.
That's what I tell people to do. My purely anecdotal evidence: I observe that to get a Windows disk to reliably defrag, it should be taken off-line (otherwise it constantly restarts the process). A huge NTFS disk takes ages to defrag, the time involved seems about the same order as simply move the files off, copy them back. One day I may even test this with a stop watch :-) As someone else said elsewhere, it's the user's problem to do the right thing with sparse files, symlinks and to remember which files are actually hard links. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
