Les Mikesell wrote: > With backuppc the issue is not so much fragmentation within a file as > the distance between the directory entry, the inode, and the file > content. When creating a new file, filesystems generally attempt to > allocate these close to each other, but when you link an existing file > into a new directory, that obviously can't be done so you end up with a > lot of long seeks when you try to traverse directories picking up the > inode info.
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