Online resizing of ext3 filesystems {shrink}

[Jeff Spaleta]

On 1/9/06, Bill Rugolsky Jr. <brugolsky at telemetry-investments.com> wrote:
> Linux file systems generally don't need a defragmenter, except in a few
> cases.  Reservations and/or delayed allocation help to alleviate problems
> with files written incrementally, even on busy multi-user servers.  For
> an overview of the state of Ext3, see:

Doesn't this issue of how ext3 sprinkles data around the disk also
impact the underlying limitations on speed of bootup and desktop
initiation? Not that I care about bootup speed issue, because I really
really don't.  But I've been told that diskseek is the large
bottleneck. Wouldn't a defragmenter signficantly help with diskseek
related speed limitations?

-jef