On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 06:07, Kaj Haulrich wrote:
> On Tuesday 18 May 2004 21:12, PM wrote:
> > On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 15:03, Michael Tienhaara wrote:
> > > Thanks for the reply.  Now I'm curious....how?  Does it defrag
> > > "on the fly?"  Or, at set times?
> > > Michael
> >
> > It's a completely different file system to MS dos ( in its
> > various forms), and doesn't fragment files (not so you'd notice,
> > anyway) so there's no need to defrag.
> 
> ...which is not entirely true, though. In filesystems like ext2, 
> ext3, ReiserFS and XFS there is no need whatsoever to defrag, but 
> in IBM's JFS is is recommended to do so now and then.
> 
> Kaj haulrich.

That's IBM for ya.

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