-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 11/18/07 00:28, Sam Leon wrote: > André Wendt wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm running a benchmark program on Lenny that writes into a file and >> repeatedly exits once the filesize reaches 2,099,204 bytes. This is on >> ext3. >> >> $ ulimit -f >> unlimited >> >> $ uname -a >> Linux think 2.6.22-2-686 #1 SMP Fri Aug 31 00:24:01 UTC 2007 i686 >> GNU/Linux >> >> This doesn't seem to be a problem for other programs. I have a >> VirtualBox snapshot as large as 2,587,808 bytes. >> >> Any hints as to what's going on? Please CC me, I'm not on the list. >> >> Thanks, >> André >> >> > > http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=+site:ubuntuforums.org+ubuntu+defrag > http://www.satlug.org/pipermail/satlug/2007-November/052627.html > It is a windows thing. > The fact is that the fragments in ext3 really don't hurt it much.
Not just DOS/Windows, but any 70s-era filesystem. (Files on OpenVMS' ODS-2 can get highly fragmented.) - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA %SYSTEM-F-FISH, my hovercraft is full of eels -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHP7elS9HxQb37XmcRAlQ4AKC6fPfQnMK/QK6L5ZFgTaoRorl1QACgzBFT dQYYV8jInWC0zZvnzMt/FzE= =NA02 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
