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From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
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Subject: Re: On-the-fly defragmentation of FFS
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> 
> I think you're missing an obvious point, as the file is written out
> the only place where it is likely to be fragmented is the end, hence
> the reason for only defragging the end of the file. :)

usually, though database files can be written randomly as they are filled
in.





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