On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:25:00 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: > > > Don't reduce it to 0, the lower this value is, the more > > > fragmentation you will get. > > > > Why is that? I would have expected more usable space to reduce the > > need for fragmentation. I routinely use 0 on non-system filesystems. > > I read this often, and to me it seems to make sense. When a file system > is nearly full, writing a last big file will make the file being > cluttered along all those tiny places where some free space is still > left. And this probably already happens to some extent before the > filesystem is completely full.
But if you set m > 0, the filesystem will become full sooner, so fragmentation will begin sooner (for non-root processes). -- Neil Bothwick Did you hear about the blind prostitute? You have to hand it to her.
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