Re: Fragmentation of Journaling FS

[Utz Lehmann <leh@de.tecosim.com>]

Hi Steve

Steve Lord [lord@sgi.com] wrote:
> > Hi Constantin
> > 
> > Sorry, I'm in doubt with the sharp performace drop at 50% disk usage on a
> > xfs filesystem.
> 
> Hmmm, you probably need to do some random deleting in between times here,
> if I read Constantin's page correctly he is trying to simulate the an
> aged filesystem which has had lots of data created and removed over
> time - this has the effect of making the free space distribution a lot
> more random.
> 
> Steve

>From Constantin's mail:

 Please note,
that agesystem is a misleading term, it doesnot age up to now, it just
write to the disk once without deletion of any created file.


utz