On Sun, 2004-11-21 at 11:49 -0500, Charles R. Anderson wrote:
On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 11:28:43AM -0500, Daniel Veillard wrote:
[cut defrag method]
> We could expect filesystems to allocate the new blocks (data and possibly
> metadata) more or less sequentially on disk. What would led the filesystem
> code to not be sequential (most of the time assuming a single block device
> underneath) ?
Here is an article on the topic. Do we have ext3 block reservation in
FC kernels?
yes.
the files themselves aren't internally fragmented. it's teh seeks
between teh various files that causes things.