On 2/17/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Daniel Kristjansson</b> <<a href="mailto:danielk@cuymedia.net">danielk@cuymedia.net</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
There is a defragmentation tool for XFS. I forget the name of<br>it at the moment, but it runs for two hours when started and<br>is suitable for putting in cron as part of nightly maintenance.<br>XFS tries hard not to fragment files, this is in fact part of
<br>the reason for the zeroed files on crashes. But if the disk<br>gets near full the files must by necessity be put down in a<br>fragmented manner.</blockquote><div><br><br>The tool is called xfs_fsr (file system reorganizer).
<br><br>I haven't noticed much difference after I've run it, though.<br><br>Carl Fongheiser <br></div><br></div><br>