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Re: JFS needs to be defragmented?



On Sun, 06 Jun 2010 22:06:01 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:

> This seems to imply that JFS needs to be defragged:
> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/JFS_Filesystem#Defragmenting_JFS
> "JFS, like all file systems, will degrade in performance over time due
> to file fragmentation. While there is in-place defragmentation code in
> the JFS utilities, this is code held over from the OS/2 port and has yet
> to be implemented."

In fact, it seems there are dedicated tools for defragging many of the 
most popular filesystems:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defrag#Approach_and_defragmenters_by_file_system_type

What I have not found is something for ReiserFS volumes :-?

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón


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