Re: Ext2 defragmentation

Rogier Wolff (R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl)
Sat, 13 Nov 1999 09:46:46 +0100 (MET)

Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> you have lots of large files, since large files that are bigger than a
> block group (8 megs or 32 megs) have to be non-contiguous by the nature
> of the ext2 filesystem.

You mean you're still using 2k blocks? I use 4k blocks on filesystems
larger than 4G. Noticably faster mount times and fsck times. (ok, it
may be a bit less efficient, but larger than 4G means that i'm talking
about larger disks..... And I'm spending at least 400M in "reserved
for superuser", and chances are that I'm using less than 100k files on
such a filesystem, so the block-size roundoff is also going to be less
than 400M....)

Roger. 

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