Chapter 4.AIX Version 4 Storage Management Enhancements
AIX Version 4 provides enhanced functional capabilities in the area of the
storage management.This chapter will examine these enhancements, in some
detail.
4.1Fragmentation
Fragmentation is a concept introduced in BSD UNIX** which enables system
administrators to manage file systems in such a way that they make more
efficient use of the disk storage space available to them.
Research conducted in the area of disk space utilization has revealed that up to
45% of disk space is wasted by file systems that use a 4KB block as the
allocation unit.In AIX releases prior to AIX Version 4, the disk space ...
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