From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tracy R Reed Subject: Re: Silly question, defrag Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 16:45:45 -0800 Message-ID: <20020403164545.B21821@ultraviolet.org> References: <200204030017.12595@X-Message-Flag:> <3CAABBA6.3030101@swelltech.com> <200204030740.05950@X-Message-Flag:> <3CAB48E5.9050001@namesys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="8P1HSweYDcXXzwPJ" list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3CAB48E5.9050001@namesys.com>; from reiser@namesys.com on Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 10:24:37PM +0400 List-Id: To: Hans Reiser Cc: matthew@psychohorse.com, reiserfs-list@namesys.com --8P1HSweYDcXXzwPJ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 10:24:37PM +0400, Hans Reiser wrote: > There are ways in which Windows is better than Linux. This is one. To= =20 > think that Linux is better for not having defrag is wishful innacurate=20 > thinking. Such is life. Send us $30k and defrag will go into v4.0=20 > instead of 4.1.:) I have to wonder about your motives here, Hans. You are the one who stands to gain by capitalizing on newbie Unix/Linux users misunderstanding of filesystems based on their experience with DOS and Windows and here you are promoting defrag as a feature which puts your FS above others. They have learned to compulsively defrag their disks once a week and you are looking to feed their addiction. I think reiserfs is really great and a defrag/repacker will be nice but the above strikes me as a bit strange. How long has ext2 been around as the stock Linux filesystem? More than long enough for people to have realized whether a defragger would be useful. Yet I can't think of a single distribution (of Linux or Unix in general) that comes with a defragger. Stephen Tweedie wrote one for it but nobody bothers to use it or even to include it with their distro. Please don't perpetuate the idea that good filesystems have/need a defragger. --=20 Tracy Reed http://www.ultraviolet.org "She moves in mysterious ways" --8P1HSweYDcXXzwPJ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjyrojkACgkQ9PIYKZYVAq044ACeI5uCnTk21QY14lyiWjZv05/R rCUAoJ9GJokvcUl29euSZahYSNjTJngL =GSp0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --8P1HSweYDcXXzwPJ--