On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Naren Devaiah wrote: > limit fragmentation, but fragmentation does occur especially when the > size of the file is less in comparison to the size of the data block > used to store the file.
That is what is known as internal fragmentation. defragmentation does not change this. defragmentation will only help external fragmentation. external fragmentation is when a single file is spread out over non-contiguous sectors on the disk. defragmentation brings all these parts together, in sequential order, so that the disk head does not need to move while reading the file. internal fragmentation on the other hand can only be fixed by making smaller block sizes. this requires a reformat of the partition. a second alternative would be to store really small files within the inode itself, using dereferencing only for files that are larger than the inode. Not sure if this is the right one, but I think this paper explains some stuff: http://www.reiserfs.org/whitepaper.html -- "All this modern technology just makes people try to do everything at once." -- Hobbes _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
