Andreas Dilger wrote: > 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)? Ah that crossed my mind, but since so many other e2fsprogs tools coalesce adjacent extents and report "1" I figured e2fsck was too (though I didn't look...) -Eric -- 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
