On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 15:37, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > What would be a good way to defrag a filesystem and(!) to place the > files' data on it such that it matches alphabetical order of dir > listings (or however iso9660 does it)? I figure copying would be the > only safe solution (and it's fs-independent), but how can the data > ordering be achieved? Hmmm. I think your cause is hopeless if you use an inode-based system, such as Ext2, RiserFS, NTFS, UFS... Such systems separate the metadata into an inode, and optimise where they put the data based on voodoo (the rattling you hear when disks access is a small goat-head filled with coloured stones).
I reckon your best hope is to use DD, TAR, or FAT :) -- Michael JasonSmith http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~mpj17/
