[mythtv-users] Fragmentation On Recording Disk?

[jason maxwell]

On 4/4/07, Matt Doran <matt.doran at papercut.biz> wrote:
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>  Tim Phipps wrote:
>  On Wednesday 4 April 2007 8:31 am, James Warden wrote:
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>  Are disks formatted with
> ext3 showing the same fragmentation factor ? And does one know the growth
> rate of this factor ? (what are the relevant variables : disk size ?
> technology ? file system ?)

I thought that with ext2/3 fragmentation was kept in check by regular
fscking. I may be wrong, but I've been using linux for a decade and
have never noticed any performace symptoms that would make me think I
needed a defrag.
-J