[Info-vax] Anyone interested in another public access system

[Richard B. Gilbert]

Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> In article <g22Fl.7857$U5.87390 at newsb.telia.net>,
> 	Jan-Erik Söderholm   <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> writes:
>> Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>
>>> 562 files, 2945723 used, 34908981 free (293 frags, 4363586 blocks, 0.0% fragmentation)
>> How is the %-frag calculated ?
>> And is the data inside the () a specification of "free"
>> or of both "free" and "used" ?
>>
>> It's a bit weird that 562 files with 293 frags = 0.0% fragmentation...
> 
> I have not looked at how the calculation is done but my guess would be
> that the 293 frags included unused areas of the files system that are
> empty frags but might at some point hold an entire file, depending, of
> course, on their size.  The 0.0% fragmentation I would take to mean the
> fragmentation of the files, which is the only thing that really matters
> when computing filesystem performance.
> 
> bill
> 

The fragmentation of free space is also important!  If you don't have 
contiguous free space you can't allocate contiguous space to put files in!