Re: Fragmentation of Journaling FS

[Seth Mos <knuffie@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 16:52 1-8-2001 +0200, Utz Lehmann wrote:
> Hi Constantin
>
> No sharp drop.
> That the elapsed time is reduced by the volume size is very interessting. On
> the 512MB volume it's only half of the 4GB volume. My test is very quick and
> very dirty.
>
>
> btw: For your agesystem you can maybe add following:
> - random file deletion
> - deletion of whole trees
> - simultaneous writing of files (very important, a lot of filesystems are
>   fragmenting these files badly)
> - appending to files in different sized pieces (like logfiles)
And after running those test using xfs_fsr to see if it helps :-)

Cheers
--
Seth
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