Re: Logging disk accesses.

Chris Wedgwood (chris@cybernet.co.nz)
Wed, 3 Jun 1998 21:48:19 +1200


On Wed, Jun 03, 1998 at 11:23:58AM +0001, Etienne Lorrain wrote:

> It is not fool prof but it is then a userland daemon - and may worth to
> be tried... Another solution is to backup the complete disk, clear it,
> and restore every files - but in a special order.

Actually sct's e2defrag will do this, defrag files and you're allowed to
specify an order.

In practice, I don't notice any benefit from defrag drives as opposed to
ones I use normally (unless I try to fragment them deliberately).

-Chris

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