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From: Linda Walsh <xfs@tlinx.org>
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Subject: Re: XFS for lots of small files
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To: Martin Steigerwald <Martin@lichtvoll.de>, Linux-Xfs <linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com>

Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> And there is quite some fragmentation on it:
> 
> xfs_db> frag
> actual 653519, ideal 587066, fragmentation factor 10.17%
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	Not to disturb you, but are  you running xfs_fsr on a
regular basis?

I have a shell script that runs in my 'cron.daily' that has two
lines:
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#!/bin/bash
ionice -c 3 /usr/sbin/xfs_fsr &
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I've never noticed fragmentation above 1% on my disks...but your
mileage may vary ....