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
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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...

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