Bill Moran wrote: > In response to Ivan Voras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> 352462 files, 2525857 used, 875044 free (115156 frags, 94986 blocks, >> 3.4% fragmentation) > > 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. Ok, my point was that 3.4% is a low number for a long used system, but, for education sake, what is the difference between Windows' "fragmentation" and Unix's "fragmentation"? I believe that a "fragmented file" in common usage refers to a file which is not stored continuously on the drive - i.e. it occupies more than one continuous region. How is UFS fragmentation different than fragmentation on other kinds of file systems? UFS has cylinder groups, blocks and block fragments. Obviously, a file larger than a cylinder group will get fragmented to spill over to another cylinder group. Block fragments only occur at the end of files.
signature.asc
Description: OpenPGP digital signature
