From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 17 7:50:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.mediaone.net [24.147.184.128]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00F5D37B4FE for ; Tue, 17 Oct 2000 07:50:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) id e9HEo2n11212; Tue, 17 Oct 2000 10:50:02 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from lowell) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Defragmentation References: From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 17 Oct 2000 10:50:01 -0400 In-Reply-To: Daniel.Bye@uk.uu.net's message of "17 Oct 2000 16:11:08 +0200" Message-ID: <44y9znfrom.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net> Lines: 12 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.7 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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