On May 16, 2013, at 10:21 AM, Felix Miata <[email protected]> wrote: > > Not enough sleep last night. The 11.4 shows 27 extents for /boot/initrd. The > 12.3 shows 11 extents for /boot/initrd, same number as /boot/vmlinuz.
That's a lot of fragmentation for such small files, it seems to me. On my Fedora system using ext4, all of the kernels and initramfs's are in 1 extent. Even the 35MB rescue initramfs is in 1 extent. The Fedora 19 Live beta TC4 ISO is 988MB, and is in only 3 extents. [root@F19 Downloads]# filefrag -v Fedora-Live-Desktop-x86_64-19-Beta-TC4-1.iso Filesystem type is: ef53 File size of Fedora-Live-Desktop-x86_64-19-Beta-TC4-1.iso is 1035993088 (252928 blocks of 4096 bytes) ext: logical_offset: physical_offset: length: expected: flags: 0: 0.. 32767: 301056.. 333823: 32768: 1: 32768.. 65535: 333824.. 366591: 32768: 2: 65536.. 98303: 366592.. 399359: 32768: 3: 98304.. 131071: 399360.. 432127: 32768: 4: 131072.. 163839: 432128.. 464895: 32768: 5: 163840.. 192511: 464896.. 493567: 28672: 6: 192512.. 221183: 495616.. 524287: 28672: 493568: 7: 221184.. 252927: 585728.. 617471: 31744: 524288: eof Fedora-Live-Desktop-x86_64-19-Beta-TC4-1.iso: 3 extents found Chris Murphy _______________________________________________ Help-grub mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub
