Hi!
That O_DIRECT worked pretty well:
Discontinuities before: 1445
Discontinuities after: 398
That is on a directory that the ordinary 'copy' could not defragment more. I
had a little trouble aligning buffers and writing files whose length was not
a multiple of the required alignment. Do you think the improvement is
JFS-specific or does other filesystems work in the same way?
Is it correct that on JFS the ideal number of extents should be 1 for each
file, independent on file size?
//Simon
On 10/29/07, Dave Kleikamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 22:26 +0100, Simon Lundell wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 10/25/07, Dave Kleikamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 11:18 +0200, Simon Lundell wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > On 10/23/07, Steve Costaras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Yes, I use the filefrag tool from Theodor
> > Tso' (ext2/3) which
> > > works on pretty much any filesystem under linux.
> > That defrag
> > > tool you mentioned would work as well (it's just
> > copying
> > > files) I don't like how it doesn't check for file
> > integrity
> > > though.
> > >
> > > Here's a fast one I through together ages ago which
> > works to
> > > some extent (no pun intended. ;) ) I never got it
> > to take a
> > > command-line argument as to which directory / mount
> > point to
> > > start on (it just runs from the current directory on
> > down).
> > > But that's easy to change (must have been
> > interrupted).
> > > Anyway do with it what you will. :)
> > >
> > >
> > > What is the the best way to write a file with respect to
> > > fragmentation? I guess that its best that the filesystem
> > knows the
> > > final size in advance, so that it can allocate it in as few
> > extents as
> > > possilbe.
> >
> > When doing a large write, jfs SHOULD at the very least
> > allocate a
> > contiguous extent large enough for the data being
> > written. Currently it
> > does not. It allocates on page at a time. So on a fragmented
> > file
> > system, the file can be quite fragmented. I have plans to
> > improve this,
> > but I haven't gotten to it yet.
> >
> > I've been experimenting with a general defragmenter like the script
> > posted in this thread. The basic algorithm is to rewrite the file, and
> > hope that the copy is less fragmented than the original. What is the
> > best way of copying/rewriting a file with regards to fragmentation?
> > Will cp do the trick or should one use something else?
>
> Actually, I believe if you open a file with O_DIRECT, and write in large
> chunks, jfs will allocate blocks in groups larger than the page size, so
> you should get better results. I'm talking off the top of my head and
> haven't verified it, but it is probably worth a try.
>
> Shaggy
> --
> David Kleikamp
> IBM Linux Technology Center
>
>
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