Re: [newbie] file fragmentation

2003-09-30 Thread Richard Urwin
On Tuesday 30 Sep 2003 1:06 am, Mark Weaver wrote: Aron Smith wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 14:46, robin wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BOBOBOBGOBOBOBOBOBOBOBOBO Would someone kindly remove ninja queen from this list and/or get her urgent medical attention? Sir Robin it's not femm

Re: [newbie] file fragmentation

2003-09-30 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 08:26, Heather/Femme wrote: it's not femm having a bad trip? lol! Most assuredly, NOT! I've been sober since last Thursday. Count on Wednesday being another stoner day though. *sigh*. Last one fortunately for a while. heh Femme Femme has a trip whether or not

Re: [newbie] file fragmentation

2003-09-30 Thread Heather/Femme
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 23:58:31 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 08:26, Heather/Femme wrote: it's not femm having a bad trip? lol! Most assuredly, NOT! I've been sober since last Thursday. Count on Wednesday being another stoner day though. *sigh*.

RE: [newbie] file fragmentation

2003-09-29 Thread ninjaqueen
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Re: [newbie] file fragmentation

2003-09-29 Thread robin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BOBOBOBGOBOBOBOBOBOBOBOBO Would someone kindly remove ninja queen from this list and/or get her urgent medical attention? Sir Robin -- I can say: 'Thank these bees for their honey as though they were kind people who have prepared it for you'; that is intelligible

Re: [newbie] file fragmentation

2003-09-29 Thread Aron Smith
On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 14:46, robin wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BOBOBOBGOBOBOBOBOBOBOBOBO Would someone kindly remove ninja queen from this list and/or get her urgent medical attention? Sir Robin it's not femm having a bad trip? Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] file fragmentation

2003-09-29 Thread Heather/Femme
On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 15:12:25 -0700 Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 14:46, robin wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BOBOBOBGOBOBOBOBOBOBOBOBO Would someone kindly remove ninja queen from this list and/or get her urgent medical attention? Sir Robin

Re: [newbie] file fragmentation

2003-09-29 Thread Aron Smith
On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 18:06, Mark Weaver wrote: Aron Smith wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 14:46, robin wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BOBOBOBGOBOBOBOBOBOBOBOBO Would someone kindly remove ninja queen from this list and/or get her urgent medical attention? Sir Robin

[newbie] file fragmentation

2003-09-18 Thread Paul Kaplan
Could someone please set the record straight... Do files on ext3 filesystems get and stay fragmented? Does this degrade performance? What tools are available to defrag? TIA Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [newbie] file fragmentation

2003-09-18 Thread Tony S. Sykes
Paul, You should really look in the archives (last 2 months). The quick answer is not it does not fragment. Tony. -Original Message- From: Paul Kaplan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 11:16 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] file fragmentation Could

Re: [newbie] file fragmentation

2003-09-18 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 18 Sep 2003 11:16 am, Paul Kaplan wrote: Could someone please set the record straight... Do files on ext3 filesystems get and stay fragmented? Does this degrade performance? What tools are available to defrag? TIA Paul Answers Not to any significant degree, No, and Possibly,

Re: [newbie] file fragmentation

2003-09-18 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 20:16, Paul Kaplan wrote: Could someone please set the record straight... Do files on ext3 filesystems get and stay fragmented? Does this degrade performance? What tools are available to defrag? TIA Paul Fragmentation for any ext file system (or any of the other

Re: [newbie] file fragmentation

2003-09-18 Thread Paul Kaplan
Thanks. Nice explanation. Do you know the advantages/disadvantages of the other journalized filesystems. P On Thursday 18 September 2003 06:52 am, Derek Jennings wrote: On Thursday 18 Sep 2003 11:16 am, Paul Kaplan wrote: Could someone please set the record straight... Do files on ext3

[newbie] File fragmentation?

2003-07-10 Thread Brooks Family
How does linux handle file fragmentation and, thus, defragmentation? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [newbie] File fragmentation?

2003-07-10 Thread Jonathan Shilling
-Original Message- From: Brooks Family [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 11:36 AM To: Newbie Subject: [newbie] File fragmentation? How does linux handle file fragmentation and, thus, defragmentation? Linux and MS windows differ greatly

Re: [newbie] File fragmentation?

2003-07-10 Thread JoeHill
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 11:36:15 -0500 Brooks Family [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: How does linux handle file fragmentation and, thus, defragmentation? The file system is just smarter about how it writes and locates on the drive, so much smarter than something like FAT32 that it is not even on the

Re: [newbie] File fragmentation?

2003-07-10 Thread Curt Tresenriter
http://librenix.com/?inode=829 On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 11:36, Brooks Family wrote: How does linux handle file fragmentation and, thus, defragmentation? __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] File fragmentation?

2003-07-10 Thread Robin Turner
Brooks Family wrote: How does linux handle file fragmentation and, thus, defragmentation? IIRC, I wrote a long explanation of this a couple of weeks ago. The short explanation is: Linux filesystems don't fragment because they don't put files in stupid places. Unix doesn't either. Nor does

Re: [newbie] File fragmentation?

2003-07-10 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2003-07-11 at 02:36, Brooks Family wrote: How does linux handle file fragmentation and, thus, defragmentation? No need. Unless you're running a news server or a file server that has thousands and thousands of very small files, and that would be using Ext3 - else, you don't worry about