Wayne wrote:
>
> Just a qucik non-help related email. How does Linux deal with thinigs like
> fragmentation on your hard disks? Does it suffer the same problems wind'ohs
> does or is this rectified by the FS itself or during boot? I have looked for
> some docs but cant find anything about it. Would appreciate any insight into
> the FS
>
> Wayne
>
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> Wayne Petherick
> Criminology Department
> Humanities and Social Sciences
> Bond University
> Gold Coast, Australia
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ext2 filesystem, used by most distros, is built to keep
fragmentation very low. SOme inefficiency exists in keeping many
small files. ext3 is available which provides some journaling,
and reiserfs which makes file storage a B-Tree and is powerful,
efficient on small files, and provides good journaling. The more
recent filesystems mentioned have yet to win widespread approval
or the mission-critical freedom from problems that ext2 has
managed.
http://step.polymtl.ca/~ldd/ext2fs/ext2fs_toc.html
has a nice analysis of ext2fs
And of course the discussion on undeletion should be enlightening
at
http://metalab.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/mini/Ext2fs-Undeletion.html
Cheers,
Civileme
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