On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 07:53:57AM -0600, Penguin Lover Dale squawked:
> I did a little test. Something fishy here. I did a test with the /data
> partition. I store pictures and documents there and it was fragmented.
> I cp -av to another reiserfs formatted partition then remade the file
> system and copied it back using basically the same command just in
> reverse. This is what I got now:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # /root/fragck.pl /data/
> 3.88457269700333% non contiguous files, 1.04344379261138 average fragments.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] / #
>
> That is not a lot better than it was before. It was 4.6% before. How
> is that? I copied it over then ran the command right after without even
> touching the files.
Is the /data partition on reiser? Did you enable tailpacking?
As I don't know what the script you ran actually does, I don't know
how it handles block suballocation... Tail packing is something that
can conceivably introduce data fragmentation in place of internal
fragmentation.
W
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superhero powers to fight crime with... What? "Waffle powers"?
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getting us a lot of hot supervillain ladies.
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