So does this mean if the partition gets more than 70% full, I will get performance hit? Thanks. Chen On Mon, 26 Apr 2004, Ahsan Ali wrote: > Yes, I believe that if the partitions have no more than 70% of their > capacity utilized there wont be any performance issues. > > Please correct me if I am wrong because I havent done any benchmarks to > verify this. > > Regards, > > Ahsan Ali > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Chuck Campbell" <campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: "Luca Ferrari" <fluca1978@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: <linux-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Monday, April 26, 2004 9:08 PM > Subject: Re: disk fragmentation > > > > On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 10:18:35AM +0200, Luca Ferrari wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I've got a simple question about disk use under windows and unix. While > > > windows sometimes requires a de-fragmentation of the disk, it seems as > Linux > > > (and even Unix) does not. I believe this is due to a better > defragmentation > > > alghoritm, but I'm not sure. Is there a daemon which does this > transparently > > > or what? > > > > No, > > Unix file systems, in general, are designed to have less performance > issues > > from fragmentation. They aren't as susceptible inherently to > fragmentation > > problems. As a result, there aren't any defrag tools around that I know > of. > > > > You can always build your own. A backup to tape will sequence all the > files > > contiguously on tape/disk, and a subsequent restore will put them back > > that way. > > > > If you bother, do some benchmarks for a particular file i/o before and > after > > and I doubt you'll see much difference, unless your disk is very, very > nearly > > full. > > > > -chuck > > - > > : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in > > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > > > - > : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
