Mike McCarty wrote:
Surely those who argue that ext3 does not get fragmented during install don't think that 248 extents is "not significant fragmentation".
While that almost certainly constitutes "significant fragmentation" it probably has very little effect on performance. It _would_ affect performance if that file were being read sequentially, but ELF binaries don't get loaded that way. Individual pages are read in via demand paging, and the next page needed could be from anywhere in the file. -- Bob Nichols Yes, "NOSPAM" is really part of my email address.
