@bmhm: I am not pretty sure if you're right. First, I would state that this linux is not a kind of thing where everything is magic, and so fa and so on, and file self-manage fragmentation and filesystem never fragment. Veritas and XFS, have a defrag tool from a long time. As far fragmentation is concerned, if I am not wrong, all journaling filesystems have fragmentation issues. And Linux is not different. What you're saying (again: if I am not wrong) was true for paging filesystems, where each file had an offset to the end. Furthermore, a paging filesystem almost full, was fragmenting as well (because all offset were going to be filled). I suspect the structure of modern filesystems is completely different and we have fragmentation issue.
I recently migrated from XFS to ext4 and the FS is pretty good. What I am missing is: 1. such tool to defragment FS 2. xfsdump, which was a very good tool for backups. -- Include ext4 defrag / defragment tool https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/321528 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
