Re: [OM] More Memory (OT)

[Chris Barker]

I think that that's the point that techies make, Chuck: it's not worth the time 
or effort.

Chris

On 28 Sep 2010, at 01:32, Chuck Norcutt wrote:

> 
> Journaling has no direct effect on the efficiency of storage and the 
> possible need for defragmentation except that a non-journaling system 
> could occasionally lose track of unused but allocated space.   B-tree 
> file systems are typically very efficient at avoiding any significant 
> fragmentation in the first place unless the space is getting very full. 
>  Once that happens nothing but defrag can recover what's there as 
> contiguous space.  But that begs the question of whether it's worth it. 
>  Probably not.

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