Re: NTFS fragmentation under Cygwin & not NT/XP; redux

2006-11-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 07:44:55PM -0800, Linda Walsh wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >>I was hoping that this discussion about ext3 would die a natural death but >>it looks like I have to make the observation that this really has nothing >>to do with Cygwin >--- > Don't know what "cygwin" you

Re: NTFS fragmentation under Cygwin & not NT/XP; redux

2006-11-27 Thread Linda Walsh
Christopher Faylor wrote: I was hoping that this discussion about ext3 would die a natural death but it looks like I have to make the observation that this really has nothing to do with Cygwin --- Don't know what "cygwin" you are talking about, but the one I download from cygwin.com seems t

Re: NTFS fragmentation redux

2006-11-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 02:25:00PM -0500, Vladimir Dergachev wrote: >On Saturday 25 November 2006 10:12 pm, Linda Walsh wrote: >> Vladimir Dergachev wrote: >> > This is curious - how do you find out fragmentation of ext3 file ? I do >> > not know of a utility to tell me that. >> >> --- >> Ther

Re: NTFS fragmentation redux

2006-11-27 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
On Saturday 25 November 2006 10:12 pm, Linda Walsh wrote: > Vladimir Dergachev wrote: > > This is curious - how do you find out fragmentation of ext3 file ? I do > > not know of a utility to tell me that. > > --- > There's a debugfs for ext2/ext3 that allows you to dump all of the > segments

Re: NTFS fragmentation redux

2006-11-25 Thread Linda Walsh
Vladimir Dergachev wrote: This is curious - how do you find out fragmentation of ext3 file ? I do not know of a utility to tell me that. --- There's a debugfs for ext2/ext3 that allows you to dump all of the segments associated with an inode. "ls -i" dumps the inode number. A quick hac

RE: NTFS fragmentation

2006-08-06 Thread Charli Li
-Original Message- >From: Robert Pendell >Sent: Saturday, August 05, 2006 7:50 PM >To: Cygwin Mailing List >Subject: Re: NTFS fragmentation > > >Vladimir Dergachev wrote: > > Also, I tried the following experiment - found a 17 MB file in >ibiblio.org and >

Re: NTFS fragmentation

2006-08-05 Thread Robert Pendell
Vladimir Dergachev wrote: > Also, I tried the following experiment - found a 17 MB file in ibiblio.org and > downloaded it with FireFox. The file ended up fragmented into more than 200 > pieces. Tried the same file with IE - no fragmentation. > > It could be, of course, that Firefox is compiled

Re: NTFS fragmentation

2006-08-05 Thread Jim Lawson
> > From: Vladimir Dergachev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: NTFS fragmentation > Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 14:54:33 -0400 > > On Thursday 03 August 2006 2:37 pm, Dave Korn wrote: > > On 03 August 2006 18:50, Vladimir Dergachev wrote: >

Re: NTFS fragmentation

2006-08-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 3 14:54, Vladimir Dergachev wrote: > On Thursday 03 August 2006 2:37 pm, Dave Korn wrote: > What I am thinking about is modifying cygwin's open and write calls so that > they preallocate files in chunks of 10MB (configurable by an environment > variable). No. Corinna -- Corinna Vins

Re: NTFS fragmentation

2006-08-03 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
On Thursday 03 August 2006 2:37 pm, Dave Korn wrote: > On 03 August 2006 18:50, Vladimir Dergachev wrote: > > On Thursday 03 August 2006 5:18 am, Dave Korn wrote: > >> On 03 August 2006 00:46, Vladimir Dergachev wrote: > >> > >> > >> Hi Vladimir, > >> > > Please CC me - I am not on the list

RE: NTFS fragmentation

2006-08-03 Thread Dave Korn
On 03 August 2006 18:50, Vladimir Dergachev wrote: > On Thursday 03 August 2006 5:18 am, Dave Korn wrote: >> On 03 August 2006 00:46, Vladimir Dergachev wrote: >> >> >> Hi Vladimir, >> > Please CC me - I am not on the list. >> >> Done :) >> > >> Actually, maybe the most informati

Re: NTFS fragmentation

2006-08-03 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
On Thursday 03 August 2006 5:35 am, Christian Franke wrote: > Vladimir Dergachev wrote: > > ... > > Also, I tried the following experiment - found a 17 MB file in > > ibiblio.org and downloaded it with FireFox. The file ended up fragmented > > into more than 200 pieces. Tried the same file with IE

Re: NTFS fragmentation

2006-08-03 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
On Thursday 03 August 2006 5:18 am, Dave Korn wrote: > On 03 August 2006 00:46, Vladimir Dergachev wrote: > > > Hi Vladimir, > > >>> Please CC me - I am not on the list. > > Done :) > > Actually, maybe the most informative thing would be to look at the device > IO controls sent by both tes

Re: NTFS fragmentation

2006-08-03 Thread Christian Franke
Vladimir Dergachev wrote: ... Also, I tried the following experiment - found a 17 MB file in ibiblio.org and downloaded it with FireFox. The file ended up fragmented into more than 200 pieces. Tried the same file with IE - no fragmentation. The difference is probably that IE initially crea

RE: NTFS fragmentation

2006-08-03 Thread Dave Korn
On 03 August 2006 00:46, Vladimir Dergachev wrote: Hi Vladimir, >>> Please CC me - I am not on the list. Done :) > > PS I'll try writing a C program when time permits - any suggestions on what > API besides regular open/write/close to use ? I think you might want to go straight to Z

Re: NTFS fragmentation

2006-08-02 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 09:11:03PM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: If you pulled it from Mozilla.org, it ain't Cygwin-based. That would point to a more general, non-Cygwin problem. Especially since tclsh.exe is just barely a cygwin program and I wouldn't be surpris

Re: NTFS fragmentation

2006-08-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 09:11:03PM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >If you pulled it from Mozilla.org, it ain't Cygwin-based. That would >point to a more general, non-Cygwin problem. Especially since tclsh.exe is just barely a cygwin program and I wouldn't be surprised if it didn't even use Cyg

Re: NTFS fragmentation

2006-08-02 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Vladimir Dergachev wrote: Hi Gary and Larry, Thank you for your comments, replies below: On Wednesday 02 August 2006 7:08 pm, you wrote: Any suggestions and comments would be greatly appreciated. Please CC me - I am not on the list. thank you very muc

Re: NTFS fragmentation

2006-08-02 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
Hi Gary and Larry, Thank you for your comments, replies below: On Wednesday 02 August 2006 7:08 pm, you wrote: > > Any suggestions and comments would be greatly > > appreciated. > > Please CC me - I am not on the list. > > > >thank you very much > > > >

Re: NTFS fragmentation

2006-08-02 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: [cc'ing you per your request] From: Vladimir Dergachev Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 5:33 PM Subject: NTFS fragmentation Hi all, I have encountered a rather puzzling fragmentation that occurs when writing files using Cygwin. What happe

RE: NTFS fragmentation

2006-08-02 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
[cc'ing you per your request] > From: Vladimir Dergachev > Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 5:33 PM > Subject: NTFS fragmentation > > > Hi all, > >I have encountered a rather puzzling fragmentation > that occurs when writing files using Cygwin. >

NTFS fragmentation

2006-08-02 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
Hi all, I have encountered a rather puzzling fragmentation that occurs when writing files using Cygwin. What happens is that if one creates a new file and writes data to it (whether via a command line redirect or with a Tcl script - have not tried C yet) the file ends up heavil