Re: How many people regularly defrag their XFS filesystems?

[Federico Sevilla III <jijo@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 06:49:29PM -0500, Justin Piszcz wrote:
> Using xfs_db -c frag -r /dev/PARTITION:
> 
> How many people defrag their filesystems using xfs_fsr /dev/PARTITION
> if their fragmentation is > 50% etc?
> 
> Does anyone regularly defrag their production filesystems or just
> defrag their filesystems on a regular basis?

I have a cron job running xfs_fsr for two hours once a week on three
production systems. This has been going on for maybe half a year now. No
problems so far.

 --> Jijo

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