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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 29, 2004
Filed:
Oct. 26, 2000
Steve Francis Best, Georgetown, TX (US);
David John Kleikamp, Cedar Park, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
This invention involves a method to modify that an operation needs to be done on a file system. This involves the concept of “defragmentation”, which is the process of rewriting parts of a file to contiguous sectors on a hard disk to increase the speed of access and retrieval. The present invention provides a system administrator who sets up a profile of when the file system should have the defragmentation utility run. There would be two fields in the profile; one for the number of times that contiguous allocation failed and the other is the size of the allocation. No application (file system utility) that uses the file system to tell when it is fragmented and that a defragmentation utility needs to be run.