Date: 17 Oct 2000 10:50:01 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <lowell@world.std.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Defragmentation Message-ID: <44y9znfrom.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net> In-Reply-To: Daniel.Bye@uk.uu.net's message of "17 Oct 2000 16:11:08 %2B0200" References: <FB7CAC781DB6D311BEE800805FE6FADA2F4CB3@camexch4.cam.uk.internal>
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Daniel.Bye@uk.uu.net (Daniel Bye) writes: > However, you shouldn't need to do this as often as under MS systems, as the > various UNIX file systems aggressively try to minimise data fragmentation. "Disk fragmentation" doesn't even *mean* the same thing on FreeBSD that it does on Microsoft filesystems. Although rather dated in absolute terms, the seminal paper on FFS is available and readable for the important concepts, and available on most FreeBSD systems as: /usr/share/doc/smm/05.fastfs/paper.ascii.gz To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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