On 13/10/06, Tony Nelson <tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The common wisdom is that EXT2/3 are not affected by fragmentation, but without much real-world proof that this is so. The EXT2/3 filesystem metadata was designed to be not much affected by fragmentation, but that says little about the file data. I read an article / webpage (that I can't find right now) by someone who decided to experiment with new and used EXT2 filesystems, and found a substatial slowdown. He was inspired to try this because he noticed that his computer sped up when given a fresh filesystem. You could try backing up and restoring to a fresh filesystem. If you spring for a new computer you'll back up and restore to the new computer. Either way you'll get a fresh new filesystem.
What about JFS? I was recommended to convert to JFS by the only linux guru that I personally know. Any comments on it? Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com/what_is/firefox.html http://song-lirics.com/
