Re: tuning ext2 or ReiserFS to avoid fragmentation with large files?

Rasmus Bøg Hansen (moffe@amagerkollegiet.dk)
Wed, 5 Dec 2001 03:17:17 +0100 (CET)


On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Erik Tews wrote:

> If I remember right xfs has got a online-defragmentation utility. So
> have a look at xfs.
>
> I think xfs works different from reiserfs and ext2 when writing files to
> disk which helps avoiding fragmentation. This feature is called
> allocation groups.

I *might* be wrong, but isn't the allocation-group thing exactly what
ext2/ext3 does?

I don't know about reiserfs and fragmentation, however.

Rasmus

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