Someone recently posted the following statement midway down the page
at
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-305871-postdays-0-postorder-asc-highlight-ext3+ordered+data-start-25.html
You don't need to defragment ext2/ext3 because as you use the
filesystem file blocks and inodes are moved around and reallocated
to keep the data nearly contiguous. It's not perfect, but it works
fairly well and you should almost never see a performance
degradation caused by the filesystem's fragmentation.
Is this statement accurate and does it mean ext2/3 is performing a
sort of dynamic defragmentation?
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Maurice Volaski, mvolaski@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Computing Support, Rose F. Kennedy Center
Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University
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