On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> I will point out though that unless your filesystem is really badly
> fragmented (in which case it would be good to know why) then xfs_fsr
> can actually make some workloads *worse*.
Could you (or somebody else) please elaborate on this ?
I've switched several file systems to XFS exactly because of the feature
of defragmenting while the FS was still mounted. I've tried to find this
kind of information prior to switching to XFS, but I failed... empirical
evidence suggests that defragmentation helps a lot in my case, but I would
really like to be aware of situations when this feature would become
detrimental.
Thanks in advance!
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