Re: Silly question, defrag

[Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>]

Matthew Johnson wrote:

>On Wednesday 03 April 2002 00:21, Joe Cooper wrote:
>
>>"Don't"
>>
>
>Well I don't, but when newbies who are used to computing on win32 systems 
>hear that they may not just accept the word don't. Actually its hard to find 
>the reasons exactly why one does not defrag.
>
>>;-)
>>
>>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.
>>
>
>Perhaps I should aim this message to the kernel mailing list, so that I can 
>get response from a wider array of people who like other filesystems. But its 
>not kernel related. 
>
>All this because of a simple query someone posted to a user group mailing 
>list lol.
>
>Matt
>
>
There are ways in which Windows is better than Linux.  This is one.  To 
think that Linux is better for not having defrag is wishful innacurate 
thinking.  Such is life.  Send us $30k and defrag will go into v4.0 
instead of 4.1.:)

Hans