Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 15 Nov 1999 11:59:29 +0100 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: Ext2 defragmentation |
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On Sat, Nov 13, 1999 at 08:44:39PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > HI! > > > > How necessary is it to defragment ones ext2 partitions? It just hit me > > > that defragmentation is very important under the Wintendo filesystem. > > > > It's not as important. But... I had an idea for an ext2 defrag daemon, > > e2defragd, which would take advantage of _disk_ idle time to reorganize > > blocks, while the filesystem was mounted. This daemon would be a good > > candidate for disk optimizations like moving frequently-accessed files > > to the middle of the disk in addition to background defragging. > > There's one usefull thing that could be done with e2defrag: putting > directories at the beggining of the disk exactly in the order find / > would use. One line hack, but e2defrag just does not work for me. > Pavel
Isn't it better to simply use locate / updatedb instead ?
-Andi
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