July 7, 200719 yr Is there a way to defragment individual hard drives? Over time, epsecially with many thousands of small files like pictures and mp3s, things are definitely going to slow down. Does anyone know if this is possible, and if so, how to do this? I'm guessing there isn't because the parity disk would need to be modified for this operation as well... Now that I think of it, having a "defrag" button next to each hard drive in the GUI interface would be a great feature for the next version :-)
July 8, 200718 yr I thought most modern file systems (i.e. not FAT32 or NTFS) auto-defragment. That's the way the Mac's file system is, and the way I thought ReiserFS is.
July 9, 200718 yr Is there a way to defragment individual hard drives? Over time, epsecially with many thousands of small files like pictures and mp3s, things are definitely going to slow down. Does anyone know if this is possible, and if so, how to do this? I'm guessing there isn't because the parity disk would need to be modified for this operation as well... Now that I think of it, having a "defrag" button next to each hard drive in the GUI interface would be a great feature for the next version :-) Fragmentation is the product of massive write/delete/rewrite activity where the empty space gets cut up into lots of small pieces over time. A media server is probably not going to be too much of a problem. Bill
July 9, 200718 yr There doesn't exist a utility to defrag a ReiserFS file system. Other linux file systems, e.g., XFS, do have defrag programs. When we add ability to support other file systems, this will be added as well, if supported.
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