Am Montag 08 März 2010 16:33:46 schrieb David Newall: > 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. > Maybe. This was just an example of things that you can come up with and which are not yet possible up in e4defrag. Christian -- 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
