From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joe Cooper Subject: Re: Silly question, defrag Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2002 02:21:58 -0600 Message-ID: <3CAABBA6.3030101@swelltech.com> References: <200204030017.12595@X-Message-Flag:> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; format="flowed"; charset="us-ascii" To: matthew@psychohorse.com Cc: reiserfs-list@namesys.com "Don't" ;-) ReiserFS (and ext2|3) do fragment somewhat, but the impact is not worth fighting over on most systems (certain environments are impacted more than others--mail servers and web caches being two examples that are hit pretty hard by fragmentation performance degradation). Besides, there is no method to defrag ReiserFS that I know of. Hans plans repacking in some future version. It will be nice, but the whole 'defrag once a month to keep your computer running smoothly' is kind of a Windows thing. Us Unix users don't really need to think so much on those sorts of things. Matthew Johnson wrote: > This is kind of a general silly question, but one that crops now and again. > Especially from newbies... > > Whats the best, most accurate answer to give to a newbie when they ask how to > defrag their hard drive, and does ReiserFS vary in itself with regards to > this, with say ext2? Its just a question I sometimes get and wondered the > best answer to this. > > Kind regards, > > Matt -- Joe Cooper http://www.swelltech.com Web Caching Appliances and Support