On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Michael O'Donnell wrote: >> Is EXT2 subject to fragmentation? > > In general, the concerns familiar to MSDOG users are not applicable. > http://www.direwolfe.org/mini-howto/Partition.html#FRAGMENTATION
Does anyone know of any unbiased and current analysis of this issue? The information in that HOWTO is rather biased, and contains the out-of-date assumption that multi-hundred-gigabyte filesystems are unlikely. It basically answers the question of "Does ext2 suffer from fragmentation issues?" with "No, because MS-DOS sucks." While I agree with the author's sentiments, they do not support the conclusions. At the same time, NTFS supposedly has a much better design, and analysis of *it* has shown that fragmentation *is* still an issue for some applications. Has anyone actually tested ext2 for this, or are we just happy living in dreamland? -- Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | The opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not | | necessarily represent the views or policy of any other person, entity or | | organization. All information is provided without warranty of any kind. | ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
