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Like most things, it depends on your workload. If all of the files are written all at once when they created (e.g., no slow append workloads) and the files are
by tytso 6y ago
Like most things, it depends on your workload. If all of the files are written all at once when they created (e.g., no slow append workloads) and the files are all the same size, then that's a very "friendly" workload that will be much less likely to suffer fragmentation. But if you are creating and deleting files that have a large range of sizes, and some files grow gradually over time, then free space fragmentation will tend to occur much more quickly.