Re: Maximizing and maintaining fragmentation

[Andrew Morton]

Timothy Miller <miller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> IMPORTANT QUESTION:  When writing to an mmap'ed file, will ext3 
>  rearrange blocks on disk in order to reduce fragmentation, or will it 
>  leave the blocks exactly where they are, just overwriting the data?

The blocks will not change.
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