[mythtv-users] Fragmentation On Recording Disk?

[Robert]

Michael MacLeod wrote:
> 
> root at sixball:~# xfs_db -r /dev/mythtv/mythmedia
> xfs_db> frag
> actual 3904, ideal 3191, fragmentation factor 18.26%
> xfs_db> quit
> 
> I just thought I'd share this with the list, and ask if anyone else has
> encountered significant performance loss due to disk fragmentation? How
> fragmented are your drives?

mythbox ~ # xfs_db -r /dev/mapper/vg-mythtv
xfs_db> frag
actual 60667, ideal 67, fragmentation factor 99.89%
xfs_db>


Hmm, that looks pretty bad.

Robert.