Comment on Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 3 days agoI’ve never had to defragment the ext4 drives in my server. Ext4 is fairly resistant to fragmentation.
Comment on Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 3 days agoI’ve never had to defragment the ext4 drives in my server. Ext4 is fairly resistant to fragmentation.
The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 2 days ago
It’s not really Ext4 doing that, it’s a bunch of tricks in the OS layer and the way apps write files to storage that limits it.
You’ll see it if you use something like a BT client without pre-allocation, those files can get heavily fragmented depending on the download speed.