Ghosting with Linux

[Brian Densmore]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Garrett Goebel 
>
> Brian Kelsay wrote: 
> > Garrett Goebel wrote: 
> > > 
> > > Things you could do to decrease the transfer time: 
> > > o defrag the drive 
> >
> > Can you defrag a EXT2 or 3 partition? Or Zero out the free 
> > space for that matter. 
> You can defrag ext2 using a utility 'defrag' which was 
> originally written for ext... But you probably wouldn't want
> to. 
I thought ext2 and ext 3 were self defragging!? I was under 
the impression you never need to defrag an ext2 or 3 partition.

> > Never heard of lzop, I guess I should get out more. 
> Neither had I until I did a google search on: fastest compression speed linux 
Me neither, but it looks like it might be a ziv-lempel compression algorithm and
thus wouldn't surprise me as being very fast and efficient.

Brian