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Does anyone out there still do this (if you ever have)?
Take a backup of the file systems (in our case, AIX UNIX), format the disks
clean, then restore the data back down to lay it back contiguous.
Are there any (noticeable) I/O advantages to doing this for a UniVerse
database on today's servers? Provided our files are properly sized, of
course.
Our Systems guys are itching to do this.
Are they Microsoft-trained? :-)
Unless you fill up the hard disk, Unix file systems don't fragment. The
only real reason for this is if you're using LVM and your partition
allocation has fragmented badly.
In normal use, you should never need to defragment.
Cheers,
Wol
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