Re: [OT?] Re: [gentoo-user] ext3: 10% non-contiguous

2005-11-03 Thread Peter Gordon
Richard Fish said: Based on what the developers presented at the 2005 OLS, delayed allocation, and an extents-based format (ext4?) are coming: http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2005/linuxsymposium_procv1.pdf That looks very intriguing. :-D Thanks for your thorough explanations, Richard! --Peter

Re: [OT?] Re: [gentoo-user] ext3: 10% non-contiguous

2005-11-02 Thread Richard Fish
Peter Gordon wrote: On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 20:34 -0800, Joshua Schmidlkofer wrote: For a more sustainable situation, switch to XFS [It involved a backup/format/restore by whatever means you want] In any case, xfs has a tool called 'xfs_fsr' Which means 'file system reorganizer'. It does

Re: [OT?] Re: [gentoo-user] ext3: 10% non-contiguous

2005-10-31 Thread Dale
Peter Gordon wrote: For what it's worth, I've never had a *single* problem with Ext3, and I've been using it with various distributions since I first started playing with GNU/Linux a few weeks after Fedora Core 1 was released. --Peter I use reiserfs and have had no problems either. I still