On Friday 01 October 2010, Adam Carter wrote: > > Your harddisk seeks, everything is slow. > > > > So does that then mean that my options are; > > 1. Defragment, so there is less seeking > 2. Get an SSD > > Since 2 is too expensive for a decent size drive, is there anything i can > do about 1 without a backup and restore operation? Or will the > fragmentation be very small on reiser3 anyway (i mount with notail) so I > should just accept things as they are.
every fs fragments over the course of time. Some more, some less. So as long as you have harddisks: get used to the seeking penalty.
