Les Mikesell wrote:
> With backuppc the issue is not so much fragmentation within a file as 
> the distance between the directory entry, the inode, and the file 
> content.  When creating a new file, filesystems generally attempt to 
> allocate these close to each other, but when you link an existing file 
> into a new directory, that obviously can't be done so you end up with a 
> lot of long seeks when you try to traverse directories picking up the 
> inode info.

For some filesystem implementations, this is true.  For others, it is 
not, due to judicious use of caching, preloading, and lookahead.
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