On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 03:01:35PM -0800, Guolin Cheng wrote: > I got machines running continuously for long time, but then the underlying ext3 file systems becomes quite heavily fragmented (94% non-contiguous). Note that non-contiguous does not necessarily mean fragmented. Files that are larger than a block group will be non-contiguous by definition. On the other hand if you have more than one file simultaneously being written to in a directory, then yes the files will certainly get fragmented. Are you a sufficient read-performance degredation? If not, it may not be worth bothering to defrag the filesystem. > Anyone have any ideas on defraging ext3 file systems on-line? Thanks a lot. There rae no on-line defrag tools right now, sorry. - Ted _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
