Hello everybody,
for 2 weeks now we are running a regular defragment on our advfs-partitions.
Everything seemed to be ok, until I saw the following report (excerpt):
> defragment: Defragmenting domain 'dom_rosat'
>
> Pass 1; Clearing
>   Volume 1: area at block  2060272 ( 4505376 blocks): 29% full
>   Domain data as of the start of this pass:
>     Extents:                   4425
>     Files w/extents:           4365
>     Avg exts per file w/exts:  1.01
>     Aggregate I/O perf:        100%
>     Free space fragments:       371
>                      <100K     <1M    <10M    >10M
>       Free space:      0%      1%      3%     96%
>       Fragments:      219     118      19      15
OK - well?
> Filling
>
> Pass 2; Clearing
>   Volume 1: area at block  1320144 (   36160 blocks):  6% full
>   Domain data as of the start of this pass:
>     Extents:                   4365
>     Files w/extents:           4365
>     Avg exts per file w/exts:  1.00
>     Aggregate I/O perf:        100%
>     Free space fragments:       169
>                      <100K     <1M    <10M    >10M
>       Free space:    139%     -2%     -4%    -33%
>       Fragments:       87      59      14       9
NOTE THE NEGATIVE PERCENTAGES!!!
[...]
Last pass:
> Filling
>   Current domain data:
>     Extents:                   4365
>     Files w/extents:           4365
>     Avg exts per file w/exts:  1.00
>     Aggregate I/O perf:        100%
>     Free space fragments:        33
>                      <100K     <1M    <10M    >10M
>       Free space:    139%     -0%     -3%    -36%
>       Fragments:        4       9       9      11
>
> defragment: Defragmented domain 'dom_rosat'
BTW - the data on the disk seem to be ok. We are running 3.0 (sorry, but
upgrading is NOT an option!).
Any ideas?
Andreas
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Received on Thu Aug 10 1995 - 21:37:37 NZST