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From: peppe@unipg.it (G. Vitillaro)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Fragmentation on UFS filesystems
Date: 18 Oct 1994 00:04:12 +0100
Organization: Centro di Calcolo - Universita' di Perugia
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I have a question I wasn't able to
solve completely just reading documentation/manuals.

If an UFS BSD filesystems has bsize=fsize
does the allocation strategy (space/time) 
and the minfree parm have any importance?

What I mean is that the filsystem shouldn't
to get fragmented at all in this situation,
so one can choose to set minfree=0 and the 
allocation=space, without the risk of any
perfomance penalization and having
the possibility to use all the available space.

May any one confirm or negate this statement?

Thank in advance, Peppe. 
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Giuseppe Vitillaro - IBM SEMEA      |  E-Mail : peppe@unipg.it 
University of Perugia Italy         |  06124 Perugia  Phone:+39.75.585-2799
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