On Aug 07, 2009 09:58 +0000, bugzilla-daemon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Normally ext4 is a perfect non-contifuous FS ... so why when I make an: > > sudo e2fsck -v -f -p /dev/sdc1 > > 15953 inodes used (0.03%) > 10361 non-contiguous files (64.9%) > > We have 64.9% of non-contiguous files on a ext4 fs, > > Files have been transfered from a cifs mount (useful ?) and files size are > [2-10]|[600-800]MB Note that the largest single extent in ext4 is 128MB, so it is perfectly normal to have fragmented files if they are 600MB in size. Maybe we should change the e2fsck stats to not consider a file fragmented if it fills the whole block group (less any metadata therein)? Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
