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Defrag on RAID?

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no1youno

no1youno

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Nov 7, 2007
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Hi all

Is it possibble to do a Defrag on RAID5? I mean, if the data is across all the physical disks I wouldn't have thought it would be possible!

Cheers
 
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Yes, you can defragment a RAID volume. Fragmentation happens at the filesystem level.

-Jeff
 
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Well there you go...you learn something new every day. :)
 
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