On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 02:31:26PM -0500, Steve Lord wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 12:13, yoros@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >
> > I never said that XFS is slower than other FS ;). I just said that it
> > spent a lot of time to delete three files. Now I know a bit more about
> > the utilities (xfs_bmap & xfs_fsr) and take more care with files by
> > looking their extents.
> >
> > Sorry if I am a little heavy...
> >
> > When a file is downoaded from internet it is written to disk in small
> > blocks, may it be a problem?
> >
>
> If the download program is actually downloading multiple sections
> of the file in parallel to different offsets then there may be
> issues getting reasonable allocation.
>
> Another possibility is you are actually downloading several files
> in parallel to the same directory. Flush activity during these
> downloads would tend to scatter the extents of the individual
> files around.
I think it happends the second situation. Yes, I am downloading more
than one file to the same directory (downloads directory :) and I obtain
that results.
Seen this results I am thinking about the creation of a sparse file.
Creating sparse files, helps files to be fragmented? (sorry, making a
complex questions is hard to me).
Pedro
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