Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!grr From: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: BSD filesystem defragmentation question Message-ID: <7682@cbmvax.UUCP> Date: 17 Aug 89 03:10:49 GMT References: <20630@adm.BRL.MIL> Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA Lines: 16 In article <20630@adm.BRL.MIL> rbj@dsys.ncsl.nist.gov (Root Boy Jim) writes: > > OK, trick question for wizards! How many fragments does a file of > size ((1 << 20) + 1) have? Answer: zero! Only direct blocks are > fragmented! Top of page 208 in the 4.3 book. > > Chris, was this true in 4.2 as well? Given that the main purpose of framentation is to reduce the percentage of disk space wasted by itsy-bitsy files as compared to simply increasing the block size, this is hardly cause for distress... -- George Robbins - now working for, uucp: {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr but no way officially representing arpa: cbmvax!grr@uunet.uu.net Commodore, Engineering Department fone: 215-431-9255 (only by moonlite)