On Wed, 20 May 1998, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> One of the things that the Unix FS does is auto-defragmenting, at
> least the UFS one does. Whenever the system is idle (from my
> understanding), the kernel uses that time to clean up the file systems, to
> reduce the file system fragmentation.
No, that doesn't happen. The only way to eliminate fragmentation is a
dump/newfs/restore cycle. UFS does do fragmentation avoidance (which is
reason UFS filesystems have a 10% reserve).
Tom