[PATCH] xfs_db: defang frag command

Christoph Hellwig hch at infradead.org
Mon May 23 10:06:28 CDT 2016


On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 02:41:28PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Too many people freak out about this fictitious "fragmentation
> factor."  As shown in the fact, it is largely meaningless, because
> the number approaches 100% extremely quickly for just a few
> extents per file.
> 
> I thought about removing it altogether, but perhaps a note
> about its uselessness, and a more soothing metric (avg extents
> per file) might be useful.

Heh.  Looks reasonable:

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>



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