BSD filesystem defragmentation question
George Robbins
grr at cbmvax.UUCP
Thu Aug 17 13:10:49 AEST 1989
In article <20630 at adm.BRL.MIL> rbj at dsys.ncsl.nist.gov (Root Boy Jim) writes:
>
> OK, trick question for wizards! How many fragments does a file of
> size ((1 << 20) + 1) have? Answer: zero! Only direct blocks are
> fragmented! Top of page 208 in the 4.3 book.
>
> Chris, was this true in 4.2 as well?
Given that the main purpose of framentation is to reduce the percentage
of disk space wasted by itsy-bitsy files as compared to simply increasing
the block size, this is hardly cause for distress...
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