Re: atomicity

Florian Weimer (fw@cygnus.stuttgart.netsurf.de)
06 Dec 1998 18:47:18 +0100


Tim Smith <tzs@tzs.net> writes:

> Basic algorithm to create a highly fragmented file on pretty much any
> file system:

If that fragments your file system, then don't do that. That's the
reason why you should only use about 90% of the total capacity of an
ext2fs (by default, the last 5% are reserved for the superuser anyway).

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