Date: Wed, 09 Dec 1998 01:52:38 -0800 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Matt Behrens <matt@zigg.com>, "Mark S. Reichman" <mark@borg.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: UFS defragmenter and/or partition resizer? (Wishful thinking?) Message-ID: <199812090952.BAA29397@root.com>
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>>Well, it would be nice to say that UFS doesn't need defragmentation, >>but it's not quite true. In practice, though, it's much less of a >>problem than with Microsoft. And unfortunately we currently don't >>have a defragmenter. I said: > Actually -current does dynamic defragmentation; that's what the >"doreallocblks" stuff is all about and why it was so important to get >it working. There is a Usenix paper on this by Keith Smith at Havard; >sorry I don't have a URL. Oops, that should be "Keith Smith at Harvard". I think the paper was presented about 3 or 4 years ago at the Usenix Technical Conference. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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