Re: [zfs-discuss] Fragmentation

2006-05-10 Thread Boyd Adamson
On 11/05/2006, at 9:04 AM, Darren Dunham wrote: I've seen this question asked in a number of forums but I haven't seen an answer. (May just have not looked hard enough) Copy-on-write means that most writes are sequential, which is good for write performance, but won't it mean that random writes

Re: [zfs-discuss] Fragmentation

2006-05-10 Thread Darren Dunham
> I've seen this question asked in a number of forums but I haven't > seen an answer. (May just have not looked hard enough) > > Copy-on-write means that most writes are sequential, which is good > for write performance, but won't it mean that random writes to a file > will put bits of the f

[zfs-discuss] Fragmentation

2006-05-10 Thread Boyd Adamson
I've seen this question asked in a number of forums but I haven't seen an answer. (May just have not looked hard enough) Copy-on-write means that most writes are sequential, which is good for write performance, but won't it mean that random writes to a file will put bits of the file all ove