* Bill Moran:
> To clarify my viewpoint:
> To my knowledge, there is no Unix filesystem that _suffers_ from
> fragmentation. Specifically, all filessytems have some degree of
> fragmentation that occurs, but every Unix filesystem that I am aware of
> has built-in mechanisms to mitigate this and p
Gregory Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In the case of a performance-critical file like the WAL that's always read
> sequentially it may be to our advantage to defeat this technique and force it
> to be allocated sequentially. I'm not sure whether any filesystems provide any
> option to do so.
"Craig A. James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> More specifically, this problem was solved on UNIX file systems way back in
> the
> 1970's and 1980's. No UNIX file system (including Linux) since then has had
> significant fragmentation problems, unless the file system gets close to 100%
> full. If
Bill Moran wrote:
In response to Heikki Linnakangas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Can anyone else confirm this? I don't know if this is a windows-only
issue, but I don't know of a way to check fragmentation in unix.
I can confirm that it's only a Windows problem. No UNIX filesystem
that I'm aware of s
In response to Heikki Linnakangas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
[snip]
> >> Can anyone else confirm this? I don't know if this is a windows-only
> >> issue, but I don't know of a way to check fragmentation in unix.
> >
> > I can confirm that it's only a Windows problem. No UNIX filesystem
> > that I'm
