Re: [luv-talk] File fragmentation and waste disk space

Rohan McLeod <rhn@jeack.com.au> wrote:

So to your knowledge: 1/ no FS does this 'contiguous allocation' ?;

I'm not aware of any.

2/ the reason being that ' the cost of re-arranging the files contiguously ', is greater than 'the cost defragmentation' ?;

I'm confident it would be done if there were a performance benefit. XFS performs delayed writes to reduce, but not eliminate, fragmentation, as does ext4 if I remember correctly.