>> >> I wondered how pacman-optimize can optimize :O I think this is >> fortuitousness. :)
>DM> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fragmentation_%28computer%29 >DM> You are referring to data fragmentation. The problem is actually >DM> external fragmentation. It is not the files themselves that are spread >DM> out on the drive into multiple pieces, but the whole directory >DM> hierarchy is spread out, so when a readdir is called, the disk has to >DM> do much more seeking than if the whole tree was in one place. I tell about it in my first letter. XFS have ~1-4G allocation groups and spread files over them... And many unix fs do the same. _______________________________________________ arch mailing list arch@archlinux.org http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
