[openbeos] Re: Max number of files on BFS?
- From: "Simon Taylor" <simontaylor1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 13:48:20 +0100 BST
> Mikael Jansson wrote on Sat, 28 Aug 2004 08:11:08 GMT:
> > The reason I ask this is because I noticed my system got a lot
> > faster
> > when I moved over all my email (10k files) to another volume than
> > the
> > boot volume, and now I intend to keep it that way, because of the
> > ease-
> > of-use when backing up (instead of having to do the zip -9ry
> > dance.)
>
> BFS does suffer from fragmentation problems, particularly with e-mail
> when you get a lot (thousands) of new files (messages) and delete most
of them (spam). Besides having normal file fragmentation, the indices
also get fragmented, which affects the time it takes to create/destroy
e-mail files (since each e-mail could affect a dozen indices). Running
chkbfs also becomes slower (and its slowness is a good measure of how
fragmented your disk is).
>
> If you reformat the drive (and recreate the new empty indices needed
> for mail) and then copy over all the mail files (with Tracker or Zip to
preserve the attributes), it will be noticably faster, for a while.
>
> - Alex
Ah, so my >100 spam emails that get deleted every day could well be
causing my system to appear to be crawling these days (compared to BeOS
usually, not to windows or anything of course :D)
I was planning a full BeOS install from scratch procedure when I'm back
at uni with a nice quick net connection.
Anything planned for Haiku to alleviate this? I guess the nifty
intelligent defragger is an R2 thing :) - any chance it could be made
to happen automatically when necessary, without having to run a
"defrag" type program?
Simon
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