In response to Ivan Voras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Steve Franks wrote: > > How come I never hear defrag come up as a topic, and can't find > > anything related to defrag in the ports tree? Is it really not an > > issue on UFS? Can someone point me to an explantion if so? > > fsck will tell you the level of fragmentation on the file system: > > > fsck /usr > ** /dev/ad0s2g (NO WRITE) > ** Last Mounted on /usr > ** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes > ** Phase 2 - Check Pathnames > ** Phase 3 - Check Connectivity > ** Phase 4 - Check Reference Counts > ** Phase 5 - Check Cyl groups > 352462 files, 2525857 used, 875044 free (115156 frags, 94986 blocks, > 3.4% fragmentation) > > This is from a /usr system that's been in use for years. (note that > "frags" in the last line refer to file system fragments - "subblocks", > not fragmented files).
Just to reiterate: "Fragmentation" on a Windows filesystem is _not_ the same as "fragmentation" on a unix file system. They are not comparable numbers, and do not mean the same thing. The only way to avoid fragmentation on a unix file system is to make every file you create equal to a multiple of the block size. And unix fragmentation does not degrade performance unless the file system is close to full. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
