<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 11:57 PM, Michael David Crawford <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mdcrawford@gmail.com" target="_blank">mdcrawford@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id=":n1" class="a3s" style="overflow:hidden">In principle a highly fragmented disk has less payload capacity, and<br>
will be slower to access because of all the indirect blocks.</div></blockquote></div><br>If the file is that large, it'll have indirect blocks anyway. I don't know how HFS+ handles it offhand, but on UFS you would have the same number of indirect blocks either way.<br><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates</div><div><a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" target="_blank">allbery.b@gmail.com</a> <a href="mailto:ballbery@sinenomine.net" target="_blank">ballbery@sinenomine.net</a></div><div>unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad <a href="http://sinenomine.net" target="_blank">http://sinenomine.net</a></div></div></div>
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