On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 20:34 -0800, Joshua Schmidlkofer wrote: > For a more sustainable situation, switch to XFS [It involved a > backup/format/restore by whatever means you want] In any case, xfs > has a tool called 'xfs_fsr' Which means 'file system reorganizer'. > It does defragmentation, and balances some other stuff too. I run it > weekly on my production servers, and nightly on most of my > workstations.
Thus why it is broken by design in my view. A good filesystem should not need to be defragmented. All filesystems will become fragmented over time, but a filesystem which is well-behaved should take minimal, if any, performance loss from it. For what it's worth, I've never had a *single* problem with Ext3, and I've been using it with various distributions since I first started playing with GNU/Linux a few weeks after Fedora Core 1 was released. --Peter
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