“There is a myth that ‘linux filesystems don’t need to be
defragmented.’ As it may be truth in general, it still can be
dispelled by a simple script, which creates a certain number of
directories and in each of them creates and deletes a certain
number of files–in, let’s say, two passes. So, does your
filesystem need defragmentation…?“Let’s make an experiment–we’re going to start with creating a
filesystem image…”
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