On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 12:33:56AM +0100, Pavel Cahyna wrote:
> On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 14:16:31 -0600, Mike Parson wrote:
>
>> About 6 months ago, I moved my homedirs on this box to a new hard-drive.
>> After the newfs, I used a dump/restore pipeline to copy over the files.
>>
>> Before the copy, it took nearly 20 seconds to open my
>> +lists/netbsd/users nmh folder in mutt with over 1000 msgs, afterwards,
>> just a couple of seconds.  Now, its slowed down again, lots of activity,
>> lots of little files getting created and deleted, over time, things
>> scatter, get less efficient.
>>
>> This would be the similar under FFS, ext3, xfs, lfs, reiser, whateverfs.
>
> Are you sure about LFS? I thought that it does not scatter files, but
> write everything in continuous fixed-size segments instead.

Okay, I admit I don't know hardly anything about LFS, but can it really
prevent any kind of filesystem fragmentation?

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Michael Parson
mparson@bl.org