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commit 027e6efd2b432232562d726f14702f79792b38cb
Author: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
Date: Mon May 30 10:35:56 2016 +1000
xfs_db: defang frag command
Too many people freak out about this fictitious "fragmentation
factor." As shown in the fact, it is largely meaningless, because
the number approaches 100% extremely quickly for just a few
extents per file.
I thought about removing it altogether, but perhaps a note
about its uselessness, and a more soothing metric (avg extents
per file) might be useful.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Index: xfsprogs-4.5.0/db/frag.c
===================================================================
--- xfsprogs-4.5.0.orig/db/frag.c
+++ xfsprogs-4.5.0/db/frag.c
@@ -172,6 +172,10 @@ frag_f(
answer = 0.0;
dbprintf(_("actual %llu, ideal %llu, fragmentation factor %.2f%%\n"),
extcount_actual, extcount_ideal, answer);
+ dbprintf(_("Note, this number is largely meaningless.\n"));
+ answer = (double)extcount_actual / (double)extcount_ideal;
+ dbprintf(_("Files on this filesystem average %.2f extents per file\n"),
+ answer);
return 0;
}