On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 03:55:27PM +0600, Markus Bertheau wrote:
> > The "toast" pages are stored in a separate table - see manual for
> > details. There's a whole chapter (53.2) on this.
>
> Yes, but I assume that on disk the pages will be laid out sequentially
> - not intentionally so, of course. See below.
I should hope not. I don't think any modern filesystem works that way.
There's a reason why there's no defragmentation tool for many
filesystems, it's not an issue these days.
Have a nice day,
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> http://svana.org/kleptog/
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