> The indirect blocks, and all blocks reached via an indirect block, > are all full blocks, never a fragment. Oops, I didn't know that. That's very helpful.
> And fragments are only ever right at the end of a small file That I /did/ know. > Note that the numbers in parentheses [of the fsck output] are what is free Oooooops. I never understood it that way. > I believe the 2nd and 3rd numbers (used & free) are in units of > the fragment size (the minimum allocation size on the filesystem). Must be that way, otherwise the numbers wouldn't make sense. And I also didn't know that one. > Perhaps surprisingly, the filesystem doesn't really bother keeping track > of how much of anything is allocated Yes, but fsck could. > If read speed is more important than write speed, then bigger stripes > make mode sense. Why is that so? In any case, for all practical reasons, my question in answered because the Borg repository holds mostly large files, which I learned are never fragmented.
