On Mon 29 Jul 2019 at 14:07:25 (-0400), Stefan Monnier wrote: > > Is it safe to use autodefrag for my use case? > > It sounds like it might be "safe" (the text doesn't actually say it's > unsafe, but just that it has downsides). > > I do wonder why you'd want to do that, tho. Fragmentation is typically > something that clueless Windows users worry about (a left over from the > days of FAT filesystems; and even tho it became largely useless under > NTFS it persisted because it's easier to tell people how to defragment > than to explain to them why it's not needed any more). > > Do you have a concrete reason to think that defragmentation will bring > you any tangible benefit?
Btrfs is not my thing, but I looked at the reference that was posted, and the Gotchas referred to within, and they mention log files having tens of thousands of extents. Doesn't sound very good. Cheers, David.
