Re: Silly question, defrag

[Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>]

Joe Cooper wrote:

> "Don't"
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> ;-)
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> 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. 

Defragging is a missing feature.  It will be the most important feature 
of V4.1

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> 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
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