From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Timothy Miller <miller@techsource.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Maximizing and maintaining fragmentation
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 19:30:18 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040213193018.339d2095.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <402D2687.2000005@techsource.com>
Timothy Miller <miller@techsource.com> wrote:
>
> IMPORTANT QUESTION: When writing to an mmap'ed file, will ext3
> rearrange blocks on disk in order to reduce fragmentation, or will it
> leave the blocks exactly where they are, just overwriting the data?
The blocks will not change.
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2004-02-13 19:33 Timothy Miller
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