Christian Borntraeger wrote:
Some bigger things are missing in the e4defrag tool: ... - overall layout considerations (e.g. putting files close to its directory or use the atime to move often used files to the beginning of a disk etc.)
Shouldn't oft-used files be placed closer to the middle? If you place them at the beginning of the file, it's only possible for the head-stack to be close to the file from the inner direction. Place them in the middle and it's possible for the head-stack to be close from the outer direction, too, which sounds like a doubling of probability. It seems that it's the least frequently used files that should be placed at one end of the disk or the other.
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