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Subject: Re: defrag
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> How come I never hear defrag come up as a topic, and can't find
> anything related to defrag in the ports tree?  Is it really not an
> issue on UFS?  Can someone point me to an explantion if so?

unless you'll keep your filesystem always near-full it's not an issue.

POSSIBLY it could gain few percent improvement with defrag, after long 
time of usage, but no more. there is AFAIK not defrag for UFS.

backup+restore will be defrag