Les Mikesell wrote:
On Sat, 2005-12-24 at 03:41, Tim wrote:
On Fri, 2005-12-23 at 14:18 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
But writing to the files *during installation* might result in fragmentation.
Initial installation, no. Installations of applications after a system has been used for some time, perhaps.
This is fedora we are talking about. If you stay up to date you've replaced almost everything several times and the files are likely scattered all over the disk.
This assertion really needs to be tested with a typical setup of two partitions: / /boot
Just apply all of the updates in the order they were released, then measure the actual fragmentation.
You could also test disk performance at various points, maybe using Bonnie, to see what the changes are.