Re: [PATCH] xfs_db: defang frag command

Christoph Hellwig
2016-05-23T15:06:32Z

On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 02:41:28PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Too many people freak out about this fictitious "fragmentation
> factor." As shown in the fact, it is largely meaningless, because
> the number approaches 100% extremely quickly for just a few
> extents per file.
>
> I thought about removing it altogether, but perhaps a note
> about its uselessness, and a more soothing metric (avg extents
> per file) might be useful.

Heh. Looks reasonable:

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>