From: marcf@nexus.yorku.ca (Marc G Fournier) Subject: Re: defragger for ext2fs? Date: Sat, 3 Apr 1993 19:18:51 GMT
davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen) writes:
>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.
just for curiosity sake...what consitiutes 'odd disk usage'? :)
I would have thought news would have been the biggest culprit, but by this,
I take it that it isn't :)
marc