From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chuck Campbell Subject: Re: disk fragmentation Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 16:48:51 -0500 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20040426214851.GA7609@helium.inexs.com> References: <200404261018.35979.fluca1978@virgilio.it> <20040426170857.GA5966@helium.inexs.com> <010501c42bb3$760b02f0$2f22a5d9@your0x1x75x7zt> Reply-To: campbell@accelinc.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Yu Chen Cc: Ahsan Ali , linux-admin@vger.kernel.org > On Mon, 26 Apr 2004, Ahsan Ali wrote: > > > Yes, I believe that if the partitions have no more than 70% of their > > capacity utilized there wont be any performance issues. > > > > Please correct me if I am wrong because I havent done any benchmarks to > > verify this. > > > > Regards, > > > > Ahsan Ali On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 02:42:21PM -0400, Yu Chen wrote: > So does this mean if the partition gets more than 70% full, I will get > performance hit? I re-ordered your question, and snipped the rest. Top posting makes it nearly impossible to follow, respond sanely to a thread of any length. In line posting is chronological, in the natural reading order, top to bottom. In answer to your question, my personal experience shows that I often get above 90% disk capacity without noticing any speed issues, but it is very file size and work load dependent. YMMV. -chuck