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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!!
Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 06:22:56 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120229062256.7ebe60a6@digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120229020541.405ab461@weird.wonkology.org>

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On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 02:05:41 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote:

> > But if you set m > 0, the filesystem will become full sooner, so
> > fragmentation will begin sooner (for non-root processes).   
> 
> Uh, really? I wouldn't think so. With m > 0, there is much space left,
> in large contiguous chunks, even though the user cannot use it all. But
> there should be no difference between writing files in terms of
> fragmentation. The reserved stuff acts just like a quota, at least
> that's what I always thought.

Yeah, that makes sense, so why should the reserved setting affect
fragmentation at all, unless you write so much data that the filesystem
would be full with a larger m? In that case, I'd prefer fragmentation to
a failed write.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Don't just do something, sit there!

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-29  6:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-28 11:37 [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!! trevor donahue
2012-02-28 11:52 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-02-28 13:37   ` William Kenworthy
2012-02-28 11:57 ` Mick
2012-02-28 11:59 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2012-02-28 12:24 ` [gentoo-user] " YoYo Siska
2012-02-28 12:50   ` trevor donahue
2012-02-28 13:25     ` Neil Bothwick
2012-02-28 13:01 ` Alex Schuster
2012-02-28 13:27   ` Neil Bothwick
2012-02-28 23:25     ` Alex Schuster
2012-02-29  0:32       ` Neil Bothwick
2012-02-29  1:05         ` Alex Schuster
2012-02-29  6:22           ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2012-02-29  9:29       ` Alan McKinnon
2012-02-29  9:57         ` Neil Bothwick
2012-02-29 10:40           ` Alan McKinnon
2012-02-29 11:08             ` Neil Bothwick
2012-02-29 12:11               ` Alan McKinnon
2012-03-01  0:59                 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2012-03-01  9:54                   ` Neil Bothwick
2012-02-29 23:59             ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2012-03-01  0:43               ` Pandu Poluan
2012-02-29  0:48   ` [gentoo-user] " Dale
2012-02-29  1:01     ` Alex Schuster
2012-02-29  2:38       ` Dale
2012-02-29  6:17         ` Neil Bothwick
2012-02-29  7:10           ` Dale
2012-02-29  7:49             ` J. Roeleveld
2012-02-29  9:23             ` Alan McKinnon
2012-03-01  1:09               ` Frank Steinmetzger
2012-03-01  8:26                 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-02-29  9:53             ` Neil Bothwick
2012-02-29  9:19         ` Alan McKinnon
2012-02-29 14:44           ` Dale
2012-02-29  7:43       ` J. Roeleveld
2012-02-29 13:06         ` Daddy
2012-02-29 14:44         ` Dale
2012-02-28 16:14 ` James Broadhead

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