[TriLUG] Re: defragmenting

[rpjday]

On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, John Franklin wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 03:43:55PM -0400, Daniel T. Chen wrote:
> > Journaling filesystems do not suffer nearly as much from fragmentation
> > since the disk commits are contiguous (at least this is the case for
> > ReiserFS). Yet another reason to use a journaling fs. ;)
>
> I think it's less Reiser's journaling and more that they've got a good
> block allocator algorithm and can stuff small files in the inode itself.

i ... don't think so, unless the basic concept of an inode has changed
*drastically* since the last time i looked.  feel free to check out
/usr/src/linux-2.???/include/linux/ext2_fs.h for the structure
of an inode.

fragmentation is not so much an issue because of clustering, not inodes.

rday