Can ext4 be defragged yet using e4defrag from some additional repositories? Couldn’t find via the YaST software management repositories/online search and don’t really want to manually recompile the kernel.
Most (months old) post on the forum about it seem to indicate simply having to wait.
The reason why I’m asking is because (samba) access to a single partition is extremely slow (30s rather than 4s) for opening 24m episodes of whatever. I suspect this to be due to fragmentation as that disk has been serving as the ‘torrent disk’ for several years now which is known to cause severe fragmentation.
The only way to find out if this is caused by fragmentation would of course be to defragmentate it.
All samba shares are set up the exact same way (via YaST) btw, so fragmentation was the only logical conclusion I could come up which would lead to a gradual (over the years) drop in performance.
Please spare me the “linux file systems don’t need defragmentation” as the e4defrag tool wouldn’t be developed if that was the case and this most likely falls under a worst use case scenario 