fragmentation and linux

[Bryan O'Neal]

Kinda...
Several points to bring up to keep the flame wars to a minimum.
It depends on your file system.
Journalled file systems are less prone to fragmentation.
All files systems have some vulnerability to fragmentation.
Modern Linux file systems can be defragmted.
The discussion is mostly moot on on solid state drives.
Depending on your RAID the discussion can also be rendered mostly moot.
Ext3 fragmentation was a big problem in my world once upon a time. Now I
use kvm on top of raid (10 or 5) on top of SSDs. Now I don't care much.

Flame away :)
On Nov 18, 2014 8:54 PM, "Michael Havens" <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I remember an east side meeting I went to (or maybe it was you tube) and
> this is what I remember....
> Windows stores data sequentially like so:
> 11112222333344445555
> and if you were to delete 2 and 5 then you were to save more data it would
> be
> 11116666333344446666
> linux scatters the data around your disk like so:
> 1111000022220000333300004444000055550000
> then you delete 2 and five and then write more data it would look like:
> 11110000000000003333000044440000000000006666
>
> is my understanding of this correct?
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
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