From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 1 21:56:34 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6594516A403 for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2007 21:56:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15CBE13C442 for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2007 21:56:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HMtGI-0007S7-Ko for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2007 22:56:30 +0100 Received: from 83-131-168-30.adsl.net.t-com.hr ([83.131.168.30]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 01 Mar 2007 22:56:30 +0100 Received: from ivoras by 83-131-168-30.adsl.net.t-com.hr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 01 Mar 2007 22:56:30 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Ivan Voras Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 22:56:02 +0100 Lines: 38 Message-ID: References: <539c60b90703010849x33dd4bbbt8f6ca6aa0c8e83a0@mail.gmail.com> <41224.216.230.84.67.1172785646.squirrel@www.l-i-e.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig745F8A36D67E9FDE69615EAA" X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 83-131-168-30.adsl.net.t-com.hr User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) In-Reply-To: <41224.216.230.84.67.1172785646.squirrel@www.l-i-e.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.1.2 Sender: news Subject: Re: defrag X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 21:56:34 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig745F8A36D67E9FDE69615EAA Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Richard Lynch wrote: > On Thu, March 1, 2007 3:35 pm, Ivan Voras wrote: >> Steve Franks wrote: >>> 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? >=20 > I've been told that most modern file systems have much better > allocation routines and/or automated defragmentation as needed. >=20 > So that the need to do "defrag" is essentially almost 0 for almost all > users. For what it's worth, this has been Microsoft's official position since NTFS became mainstream. --------------enig745F8A36D67E9FDE69615EAA Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFF50vyldnAQVacBcgRAhZEAKC9umcGnvtthfyzKW2oNyCxB0CGjgCfRKkH DKr9Aijao3cji2aRyQuPbdw= =lbao -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig745F8A36D67E9FDE69615EAA--