Re: Silly question, defrag

[Matthew Johnson <matthew@psychohorse.com>]

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