no need to defrag disks??
:confused:I'm really curious to know if there is really no need to defrag disks when we use any linux distros...
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please do some research on the different disk formats and how they compare to MS Windows NTFS ( that DOSE need defraging every 7 days)
the ext3,ext4 and riser,xfs,... are very different ( some would say better) than MS's NTFS |
i'm on it....
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There are tons of these "fragmentation" posts here on LQ. I'm not going to say either way in fear of starting another one, but I will say that I very seriously doubt that you will ever have any issue with fragmentation.
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You don't experience performance hits on Linux from fragmentation until the disk is around 80% filled.
Much as many would love to argue... Linux filesystems are just as much vulnerable to fragmentation as Windows filesystems. I recently had a discussion about this (within the past few years). http://www.mydefrag.com/forum/index....56.0;topicseen In the discussion users list sources with their arguments. Quote:
Of course the need for defragmenting, contiguous data files, and disk optimization goes away when you use a modern SSD (solid state disk) drive which has the same read time no matter which sector is being accessed. Due to this Linux still stays in spiffy shape above 80% disk usage on solid state. There's benchmarks around, just google (see c300 benchmarks). |
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