From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen) Subject: Re: defragger for ext2fs? Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1993 14:38:34 GMT
In article <1993Apr1.042033.10344@r-node.hub.org>, marc@r-node.hub.org (Marc G Fournier) writes:
| Just curious as to whether there is an upcoming release of a
| defragger for the ext2 file system? as it uses a different mechanism
| for keeping track of free blocks and such over the ext file system, I
| do presume that they are not compatible?
Actually one of the advantages of the ext2 is that there's a lot less
need for defragging. That doesn't mean there won't be one some day, but
you really shouldn't get much fragmentation unless you're doing some
very odd disk usage.
-- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345