[mythtv-users] Fragmentation On Recording Disk?

Ben Lancaster lists at benlancaster.co.uk
Tue Apr 3 22:07:46 UTC 2007


On 3 Apr 2007, at 22:30, Robert wrote:

> Michael MacLeod wrote:
>>
>> root at sixball:~# xfs_db -r /dev/mythtv/mythmedia
>> xfs_db> frag
>> actual 3904, ideal 3191, fragmentation factor 18.26%
>> xfs_db> quit
>>
>> I just thought I'd share this with the list, and ask if anyone  
>> else has
>> encountered significant performance loss due to disk  
>> fragmentation? How
>> fragmented are your drives?
>
> mythbox ~ # xfs_db -r /dev/mapper/vg-mythtv
> xfs_db> frag
> actual 60667, ideal 67, fragmentation factor 99.89%
> xfs_db>
>
>
> Hmm, that looks pretty bad.
>
> Robert.

# /usr/local/bin/xfs_db -r -c frag /dev/sda6
actual 940233, ideal 585, fragmentation factor 99.94%

I'd say that's worse!

FWIW, looks like xfs_db that ships with xfsprogs.x86_64 (2.7.3-1.2.1)  
is b0rked - mine segfaults. Fix: download source packages for  
xfsprogs and xfsdump from http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/ 
download.html and configure/make/make install


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