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From: Robert Wolfe 
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 00:03:12 -0400
Subject: Re: defrag
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Scott Little wrote to David Drummond:

SL> Nonsense.  Have you ever even checked?  If you're running JAM/squish bases 
SL> (files that grow and shrink a frequently) you'll probably find them quite 
SL> fragmented.  Large disc images tend to fragment too, IME.
SL> 
SL> Go download (e2)defrag mentioned in another post and have a look.  Last 
SL> time I used it (I use XFS now), it included the "frag" tool that just 
SL> reports fragmentation without changing anything.  If you don't have good 
SL> backups, I would advise against using poorly/infrequently maintained 
SL> low-level filesystem mangulation widgets...

But I would like to know this ... do Linux (and other *NIX) filesystems
ever need defragmenting?

    Greetings, Robert Wolfe
    robert@wolfe.mine.nu

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