Disk fragmenter?

Posted Nov 16, 2021 19:48 UTC (Tue) by KJ7RRV (subscriber, #153595)
Parent article: 5.16 Merge window, part 2

> The F2FS filesystem has two new mount options that instruct the kernel to fragment files across the storage device. Most users are unlikely to want to use this option, but it can be helpful for developers working on the performance of fragmented filesystems.

So this is basically the opposite of a disk defragmenter?

Disk fragmenter?

Posted Nov 18, 2021 21:56 UTC (Thu) by zev (subscriber, #88455) [Link]

I wrote userspace filesystem fragmenter a while back. It was kind of interesting seeing how different filesystems behaved under extreme fragmentation; I wonder if any behavior has changed since then.