Re: Ext3 File System: Dynamic Reorganization

On Friday, February 19, 2010 09:33 AM, MirJafar Ali wrote:
Hello,

I am wondering why this is not implemented and available, when there are
so many articles written in late 90's showing great performance
improvements.

Are you referring to articles about dumb filesystems such as fat? You
still have not given an example of a filesystem that actually implements
what you were asking for. Maybe it is not such a fantastic idea afterall.



I was thinking because I could not find any de-fragmentation tool for
Linux similar to windows, so I was assumings that probably Linux file
systems are smart and they must be reorganizing behind the hood.

Your assumption about file systems under Linux being smart is correct
but not in the way you imagine. They are, in fact, so much smarter that
they do not need to do any defragmentation...most of them anyway.



Thanks

Mir


On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 7:03 PM, Christopher Chan
<christopher.chan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:christopher.chan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:

On Friday, February 19, 2010 08:16 AM, MirJafar Ali wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have one question regarding ext3/ext4 filesystem. I have some
expert
> will answer it.
>
> Does ext3/ext4 filesystem perform dynamic disk reorganization for
> frequently access data ?

Name me one filesystem that does that. The closest thing that I can
think of is online defragmentation on XFS but that is not automatic
which is what I think you are alluding to as well.

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