Re: File system gets too fragmented ???

1999-05-27 Thread Graeme Tait
David Scheidt wrote: > > On Wed, 26 May 1999, Graeme Tait wrote: > > > It contains about 900,000 files, most of which are small, occupying > > around 2-5 fragments. The small files are updated monthly from a tar > > > > > However, I don't understand h

File system gets too fragmented ???

1999-05-26 Thread Graeme Tait
ated in this way? Is there some way of preventing the problem, or of periodically cleaning things up (rebuilding the whole filesystem from backup means being down for over an hour on a 24x7 server)? The procedure of deleting and restoring a portion of the files was done as an emergency measure - I would