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From: Michael Monnerie <michael.monnerie@is.it-management.at>
Subject: Re: Defragging XFS File Systems
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 07:49:36 +0200
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On Mittwoch, 8. Juni 2011 Kenneth wrote:
> > After that, I will make
> > a cron job to run on a regular basis to keep the volume from
> > getting so fragmented again.

How will you do that? Running xfs_fsr on a regular basis is *not*=20
recommended, as it will age your filesystem and defrag free space. In=20
the beginning, and as long as your filesystem is maybe 50% full it will=20
be fine, but there's a point where it starts to get worse - much worse.=20
Just run a recent kernel, it has all the naughty stuff to help keep the=20
performance high.

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