Re: Fragmentation of Journaling FS

[Seth Mos <knuffie@xs4all.nl>]

At 16:52 1-8-2001 +0200, Utz Lehmann wrote:
>Hi Constantin
>
>No sharp drop.
>That the elapsed time is reduced by the volume size is very interessting. On
>the 512MB volume it's only half of the 4GB volume. My test is very quick and
>very dirty.
>
>
>btw: For your agesystem you can maybe add following:
>- random file deletion
>- deletion of whole trees
>- simultaneous writing of files (very important, a lot of filesystems are
>   fragmenting these files badly)
>- appending to files in different sized pieces (like logfiles)

And after running those test using xfs_fsr to see if it helps :-)

Cheers
--
Seth
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