On Wed, September 15, 2010 16:18, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > For example, if you start with an empty drive, and you write a large > amount > of data to it, you will have no fragmentation. (At least, no significant > fragmentation; you may get a little bit based on random factors.) As life > goes on, as long as you keep plenty of empty space on the drive, there's > never any reason for anything to become significantly fragmented.
Sure, if only a single thread is ever writing to the disk store at a time. This situation doesn't exist with any kind of enterprise disk appliance, though; there are always multiple users doing stuff. -- David Dyer-Bennet, d...@dd-b.net; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
