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From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Normal disk speed?
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On Friday 01 October 2010, Adam Carter wrote:
> > Your harddisk seeks, everything is slow.
> > 
> > So does that then mean that my options are;
> 
> 1. Defragment, so there is less seeking
> 2. Get an SSD
> 
> Since 2 is too expensive for a decent size drive, is there anything i can
> do about 1 without a backup and restore operation? Or will the
> fragmentation be very small on reiser3 anyway (i mount with notail) so I
> should just accept things as they are.

every fs fragments over the course of time. Some more, some less. So as long 
as you have harddisks:
get used to the seeking penalty.