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Why kernel.org is slow: EXT3 file fragmentation?

Why kernel.org is slow: EXT3 file fragmentation?

Posted Jan 15, 2007 11:51 UTC (Mon) by etienne_lorrain@yahoo.fr (guest, #38022)
In reply to: Why kernel.org is slow: EXT3 file fragmentation? by jzbiciak
Parent article: Why kernel.org is slow

No, here as shown in the small and quick example, to create a contigous file of approx 300 Kbytes, the small software had to try 4 times; the first 3 times the file was not contigous.
The first 3 files are not deleted but renamed after each unsuccessfull tries, to not try to position the new file at the exact same place on the disk.
I'd bet there has not been even one "EXT2/3 fixed area" collision, those shall be very unusual, and the behaviour I see on multiple distributions is very usual - the small software stops trying after 16 unsuccessfull (i.e. non contigous) files because sometimes I got 10 non-contigous 1.44 Mbytes files (unloaded machine, plenty of space on the FS)...
I do agree on the fact that if the two fragments are nearby it should not produce performance loss.


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