<div dir="ltr">My understanding of XFS is that is does not write new files in fragments in the first place (unlike, say, DOS) because of the clever way it does lazy writes. Therefore, the only way a file can become fragmented is if you change it's size significantly. This tends not to happen with media recordings - the file is created and that's pretty much it until you delete it. (unlike documents and spreadsheets that get updated.)<br>
<br>Consequently, I woudn't think there's going to be much to gain from fragmenting XFS. <br><br>And there are some gotchas - people report losing files. So I'd use it with some considerable caution and only after appropriate research.<br>
<br>- D<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 9:45 AM, Rob Reid <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rob@robreid.co.nz">rob@robreid.co.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Barry Clearwater wrote the following on 04/09/2008 16:45:<br>
> Isn't the downside of xfs that it needs to be defragmented occasionally?<br>
> With a mythbox always on, when would you be best to do that?<br>
><br>
Just playing around with an install of mythbuntu here and noticed that<br>
under the Control Centre>Advanced Management there is an option for<br>
'Enable daily defragmentation of your XFS files systems'.<br>
<br>
cheers<br>
<br>
rcr<br>
<br>
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