Re: [OT?] Re: [gentoo-user] ext3: 10% non-contiguous

2005-11-03 Thread Peter Gordon
Richard Fish said: > Based on what the developers presented at the 2005 OLS, delayed > allocation, and an extents-based format (ext4?) are coming: > > http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2005/linuxsymposium_procv1.pdf That looks very intriguing. :-D Thanks for your thorough explanations, Richard! --Pet

Re: [OT?] Re: [gentoo-user] ext3: 10% non-contiguous

2005-11-02 Thread Richard Fish
Peter Gordon wrote: On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 20:34 -0800, Joshua Schmidlkofer wrote: For a more sustainable situation, switch to XFS [It involved a backup/format/restore by whatever means you want] In any case, xfs has a tool called 'xfs_fsr' Which means 'file system reorganizer'. It does def

Re: [OT?] Re: [gentoo-user] ext3: 10% non-contiguous

2005-10-31 Thread Dale
Peter Gordon wrote: > >For what it's worth, I've never had a *single* problem with Ext3, and >I've been using it with various distributions since I first started >playing with GNU/Linux a few weeks after Fedora Core 1 was released. > >--Peter > > I use reiserfs and have had no problems either.

[OT?] Re: [gentoo-user] ext3: 10% non-contiguous

2005-10-31 Thread Peter Gordon
On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 20:34 -0800, Joshua Schmidlkofer wrote: > For a more sustainable situation, switch to XFS [It involved a > backup/format/restore by whatever means you want] In any case, xfs > has a tool called 'xfs_fsr' Which means 'file system reorganizer'. > It does defragmentation, and b