D-Link Forums

The Graveyard - Products No Longer Supported => D-Link Storage => DNS-323 => Topic started by: mcmillion on May 24, 2009, 08:59:11 PM

Title: Defrag DNS-323?
Post by: mcmillion on May 24, 2009, 08:59:11 PM

I use my D-Link DNS-323 solely for storing backups created by the ShadowProtect backup program.  This program creates frequent incremental backups, which are "collapsed" daily into larger files for longer term storage.  Such repeated creation, merging, and deletion of files can cause fragmented disks.

I'm not familiar with the operating and file systems used by the DNS-323.  Is there a defrag process to keep the DNS disks from becoming overly fragmented?  Since I'm only using the DNS for backups I'm not overly concerned about disk efficiency, but an occasional cleanup might still make sense.

Title: Re: Defrag DNS-323?
Post by: madpenguin on May 25, 2009, 11:13:08 AM

http://geekblog.oneandoneis2.org/index.php/2006/08/17/why_doesn_t_linux_need_defragmenting

That's not to say that it doesn't get fragmented.... Just not as bad as FAT and NTFS..