On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 05:18:08PM -0400, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > It is absolutely not difficult to avoid fragmentation on a spindle drive, at > the level I described. Just keep plenty of empty space in your drive, and > you won't have a fragmentation problem. (Except as required by COW.) How > on earth do you conclude this is "practically impossible?"
That's expensive. It's also approaching short-stroking (which is expensive). Which is what Richard said (in so many words, that it's expensive). Can you make HDDs perform awesome? Yes, but you'll need lots of them, and you'll need to use them very inefficiently. Nico -- _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
