On Thu, 1 Mar 2012 01:59:41 +0100, Frank Steinmetzger wrote:

> It just means that before the drive gets physically full (which means
> that files will fragment more), it will get logically full earlier.
> This is why there can be expected less fragmentation under extreme
> circumstances (i.e. an almost full FS).

And after three hours of video transcoding, you get a disk full error
instead of a somewhat fragmented file. So far, I've seen no reason to not
use 0 on non-system filesystems. After all, -m 0 only tells ext? to
behave like every other filesystem in this respect.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

I work with User-Surly Software.

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