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Option for Pre-Allocation of Shared Storage
It would be nice to be able to pre allocate shared storage space, to avoid file system fragmentation. Even if this method allocated large blocks of space, like 1 gb at a time, it would still reduce the fragmentation.
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Inappropriate?whaddaya mean? you can always defrag filesystems thesedays where it makes sense.
simply defrag your wuala files on your disk if applicable.1 Comment
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This is one of the best points
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Defraging a 500 GB hard disk takes a long time so it would be best if we could minimize the # of times I have to do that. -
Inappropriate?Considering the bottleneck for Wuala is broadband speeds, I don't see any tangible benefit from using pre-allocation. Pre-allocating avoids having to defragment file segments since Wuala can extend a defined piece of free space on the hard drive. High end database servers use this method to minimize fragmented reads and writes. Pre-allocating makes sense if disk activity could be the performance bottleneck like a high-speed network 100 Mbit+ or running a server handling many requests.
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This is one of the best points
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File fragmentation is damaging to the whole computer not only Wuala. This is not an issue with Wuala speed but rather this would improve several things:
1. Less fragmentation means that the caching algorithms will be more efficient which would reduce the # of disk reads which would prolong the life of your hard disk (I've had several hard disks fail)
2. If my Wuala files are really fragmented then everything else would also become more fragmented than necessary as I use my hard disk to add more files.
3. This will reduce the # of errors related to running out of space (Imagine if you start a 2 GB download and then you use up your available space before the download is done) -
#3 is most important, I think.
