Re: Why ext3 doesn't need defragmentation ?

[Kamaraju Kusumanchi <kamaraju@bluebottle.com>]

On Sat, 17 Nov 2007 13:46:56 +0100, Bruno Costacurta wrote:

> Hello,
> it appears that ext3 doesn't need a real defragmentation operation (by
> 'real' I mean a specific tool that need to be run sometimes related to
> disk usage).
> 
> Is it correct ?
> If so how it works ?

I am not a file system expert by any means. Sometime back I read the 
following link and found that it explains this issue very clearly in 
layman terms.

http://www.whylinuxisbetter.net/items/defragment/index.php


hth
raju


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