Quoting Amos Shapira, from the post of Thu, 08 Sep: > On 9/8/05, Gilad Ben-Yossef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The short answer: > > Just in case someone can answer a quick "yes" or "no": > BSD 4.2's filesystem used to move blocks around as files > grew in order to keep them together, does ext2 (or any > other Linux filesystem, to that matter) also use such > techniques?
AFAIR, reiser4's whitepaper said something about it. it said that while disk IO was idle, it would start doing some reordering in an elevator sort algorythm that would pause immediately for higher-priority IO, and thus keep the FS as defragged as possible. Miki and the postgreSQL - did you benchmark JFS against reiser4? -- Civilly disobediant Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
