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minus-squarecmnybo@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·15 hours agoI’ve never had to defragment the ext4 drives in my server. Ext4 is fairly resistant to fragmentation.
minus-squareThe_Decryptor@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 hours agoIt’s not really Ext4 doing that, it’s a bunch of tricks in the OS layer and the way apps write files to storage that limits it. You’ll see it if you use something like a BT client without pre-allocation, those files can get heavily fragmented depending on the download speed.
I’ve never had to defragment the ext4 drives in my server. Ext4 is fairly resistant to fragmentation.
It’s not really Ext4 doing that, it’s a bunch of tricks in the OS layer and the way apps write files to storage that limits it.
You’ll see it if you use something like a BT client without pre-allocation, those files can get heavily fragmented depending on the download speed.