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Re: file system defragmentation

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Subject: Re: file system defragmentation
From: "Russell Howe" <rhowe@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 01:17:24 +0100
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On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 10:15:41PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> On the other hand, some applications are just brutal for filesystems - 
> go download a linux distro iso image via bittorrent & see how many 
> extents you get!

must hack bittorrent to use the preallocation ioctl...

(presumably this would fix the problem for bittorrent)

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Russell Howe       | Why be just another cog in the machine,
rhowe@xxxxxxxxxxxx | when you can be the spanner in the works?


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