Re: Defrag pitfals (was Re: Support for XFS File systems)

[Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 13:28, Bogdan Costescu wrote:

> After switching to XFS and (mea culpa!) forgetting to set up xfs_fsr to be 
> run by cron, the read speed would be similar after several days-weeks. 
> However, by using xfs_fsr we go back to reading with around 20 MiB/s even 
> for a pretty full FS.
> 

You can always tell fsr to just defragment these files, rather than
the whole filesystem.

Steve

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