Mike Benoit wrote:
> >This seems strange, because to me this type of workload would lend >itself to being less fragmented then most workloads. All the box does is >records TV programs, so over the course of 30-60min periods I would >guess 95+% of the writes are sequential. > >Why would the fragmentation be so bad? Is there a way to tell what the >fragmentation rate is? > >Thanks. > > > I wonder how the bitmap optimizations that Jeff added handle this usage pattern. Jeff?