Am Freitag, den 28.11.2008, 13:46 +0200 schrieb Alan McKinnon:
Any Linux defrag tool you encounter will have been written by a third party
separate from the developers. It will move blocks around and update
superblocks, the drive will have to be unmounted for that to work and a
slight
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 10:09 AM, Joshua Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 6:46 AM, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Friday 28 November 2008 13:14:42 Dale wrote:
If this is a little high, what would be the best way to defrag it?
By not defragging it.
It's not
On Friday 28 November 2008 21:31:51 Stroller wrote:
NTFS *is* really bad in that regard. I've seen it HORRIBLY fragmented, and
defragging it make a REMARKABLE difference.
I remember also that when M$ introduced NTFS they made a big thing of not
needing to defrag it. Only later, when others
Stroller wrote:
No, NTFS *is* really bad in that regard. I've seen it HORRIBLY
fragmented, and defragging it make a REMARKABLE difference. At least
the nice thing is that Defrag not only fixes you the problem, but also
shows it before you run it.
Stroller.
I agree. I defrag my
On Friday 28 November 2008 18:09:37 Joshua Murphy wrote:
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 6:46 AM, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Friday 28 November 2008 13:14:42 Dale wrote:
If this is a little high, what would be the best way to defrag it?
By not defragging it.
It's not Windows.
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
Alan McKinnon wrote:
I've been waiting for a proper statistical analysis of this question for
years. I'm still waiting :-) Besides, modern storage presents an extra
wrinkle. Defrag as most of the world knows it originated in DOS, where disk
sectors were guaranteed to be laid out on disk in
On Fri, 28 Nov 2008 11:24:08 -0600, Dale wrote:
Given my experience with XFS, I won't be switching anytime soon. I used
that once on a in-laws system. After each crash, power failure, I had
to reinstall. Let's just say it left a bad taste in my mouth. ;-) I'm
not saying it is a bad file
On Friday 28 November 2008 13:14:42 Dale wrote:
If this is a little high, what would be the best way to defrag it?
By not defragging it.
It's not Windows. Windows boxes needs defragging not because fragmentation is
a huge problem in itself, but because windows filesystems are a steaming mess
Alan McKinnon schrieb:
[...]
Reiser tends to self-balance itself out. What is especially noteworthy is that
none of the general purpose Linux filesystems provide a defrag utility.
Theodore 'Tso and Hans Reiser are both exceptional programmers, if there was
a need for such a tool they would
Hi folks,
I have a pretty old install tho I have moved it from one drive to
another once, using cp -av. It got to big for the old hard drive.
Anyway, the install is about 5 years old or so and about 3 years since
it got moved. I have Gentoo on it naturally, a ship load of pictures
and a few
On 28 Nov 2008, at 11:46, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Friday 28 November 2008 13:14:42 Dale wrote:
If this is a little high, what would be the best way to defrag it?
By not defragging it.
It's not Windows. Windows boxes needs defragging not because
fragmentation is
a huge problem in itself,
Florian Philipp wrote:
Alan McKinnon schrieb:
[...]
Reiser tends to self-balance itself out. What is especially
noteworthy is that none of the general purpose Linux filesystems
provide a defrag utility. Theodore 'Tso and Hans Reiser are both
exceptional programmers, if there was a need for
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 6:46 AM, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Friday 28 November 2008 13:14:42 Dale wrote:
If this is a little high, what would be the best way to defrag it?
By not defragging it.
It's not Windows. Windows boxes needs defragging not because fragmentation is
a
Dale schrieb:
I have said myself that Linux does not generally need to be defraged. I
have never seen a Linux file system get anything near as bad as
windoze. While I don't run windoze I do have family and friends that do
so I know how bad it can be. I have seen a lot of windoze be at 40 and
Florian Philipp wrote:
Dale schrieb:
I have said myself that Linux does not generally need to be defraged. I
have never seen a Linux file system get anything near as bad as
windoze. While I don't run windoze I do have family and friends that do
so I know how bad it can be. I have seen a
Joshua Murphy wrote:
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 6:46 AM, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Friday 28 November 2008 13:14:42 Dale wrote:
If this is a little high, what would be the best way to defrag it?
By not defragging it.
It's not Windows. Windows boxes needs
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Joshua Murphy wrote:
While not trying to incite flames here... xfs isn't general purpose?
xfs_fsr defrags xfs partitions while they're mounted and is designed
to be used from cron (it's in xfsdump, not xfsprogs). File
Joshua Murphy wrote:
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Given my experience with XFS, I won't be switching anytime soon. I used
that once on a in-laws system. After each crash, power failure, I had
to reinstall. Let's just say it left a bad taste in my
Hi, Dale!
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 05:14:42AM -0600, Dale wrote:
Hi folks,
I have a pretty old install tho I have moved it from one drive to
another once, using cp -av. It got to big for the old hard drive.
Anyway, the install is about 5 years old or so and about 3 years since
it got
On 28 Nov 2008, at 16:31, Florian Philipp wrote:
...
I'm wondering, why is Windows that bad in this regard? Of course,
FAT* is bad, but what's about NTFS? It is at least as modern as most
Linux FS and has some nice features. Surely MS should be capable of
implementing the same allocation
Alan Mackenzie wrote:
Hi, Dale!
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 05:14:42AM -0600, Dale wrote:
Hi folks,
I have a pretty old install tho I have moved it from one drive to
another once, using cp -av. It got to big for the old hard drive.
Anyway, the install is about 5 years old or so
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