Let's say I use a 128GiB MBR partition for OS and remaining 800GiB+ on disk serves another purpose. Then all OS files will be physically close to each other on the disk, thus reducing seek times. If I use the whole disk for OS partition, then files will be spread across the disk and even OS-only operations will require hard drive heads to perform longer seeks.
What effect have Btrfs subvolumes in this case if I use them instead of MBR partitions? Btrfs wiki says: "btrfs does write optimisation (sequential writes) across a filesystem", "subvolume write performance will benefit from this algorithm". I don't understand what it means and couldn't find explanation. Does Btrfs optimize file data placement on rotational disk inside single subvolume, so that storing similar (accessed together) data inside single subvolume will benefit in terms of performance? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
