In response to Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: [snip] > >> Can anyone else confirm this? I don't know if this is a windows-only > >> issue, but I don't know of a way to check fragmentation in unix. > > > > I can confirm that it's only a Windows problem. No UNIX filesystem > > that I'm aware of suffers from fragmentation. > > What do you mean by suffering? All filesystems fragment files at some > point. When and how differs from filesystem to filesystem. And some > filesystems might be smarter than others in placing the fragments. To clarify my viewpoint: To my knowledge, there is no Unix filesystem that _suffers_ from fragmentation. Specifically, all filessytems have some degree of fragmentation that occurs, but every Unix filesystem that I am aware of has built-in mechanisms to mitigate this and prevent it from becoming a performance issue. > There's a tool for Linux in the e2fsprogs package called filefrag that > shows the fragmentation of a file, but I've never used it myself. Interesting. However, the existence of a tool does not particularly indicated the _need_ for said tool. It might just have been something cool that somebody wrote. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/ wmoran@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Phone: 412-422-3463x4023
