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Date:      Thu, 1 Mar 2007 19:22:32 +0100 (CET)
From:      Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@tensor.3miasto.net>
To:        Steve Franks <stevefranks@ieee.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD Users Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: defrag
Message-ID:  <20070301192109.A24369@chylonia.3miasto.net>
In-Reply-To: <539c60b90703010849x33dd4bbbt8f6ca6aa0c8e83a0@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <539c60b90703010849x33dd4bbbt8f6ca6aa0c8e83a0@mail.gmail.com>

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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



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