There’s a bigger problem facing Android, and one that has an even greater negative effect on developers than operating system fragmentation: device fragmentation.
As much as Google's Dan Morrill, open source and compatibility program manager in the Android team, might want to argue that "fragmentation" of the Android platform is "bogeyman, a red herring, a story you tell to frighten junior developers," it's also very real.
As Android smartphones sell like hot cakes -- 3.7 million were reportedly activated on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day -- concerns about the fragmentation of the operating system are increasing, and Google Chairman Eric Schmidt sought to allay those fears while speaking at a panel at the Consumer Electronics Show Tuesday.
We are running OPTIMIZE TABLE , but not seeing any fragmentation reduction. They are as high as 120% to 200%.
Am calculating the fragmentation % using this: Data_Free / (Data_Length + Index_Length)
My tables are using INNODB engine and "innodb_file_per_table" set to 1.
What am I missing?
Has something change with Mysql 5.5+ onwards?
TIA
Google has made a change to the terms and conditions of the Android SDK (software development kit) to explicitly prohibit developers from taking any action that may lead to the fragmentation of Android.
I just read this article about the virtually non-existent disk fragmentation on *nix filesystems.
It was mentioned that due to the way ext handles writing data to the disks, fragmentation may only begin manifesting on hard drives that are at least 80%, where the free space between the files starts to run out.
On how to deal with this fragmentation, the final paragraph reads:
If you actually ne
I'm studying fragmentation on IPv6. I read about the fragmentation overlapping issue. Does anyone know if is possible, and if how to block this attack with ip6tables?
Thanks
It has been sixteen months since the first Android Phone entered the market. Since, then Google has released four major versions of the Operating System. These frequent major updates are the cause of Android's fragmentation issue, with hardly any new smartphone running on the latest Android.
The efforts of Google to slow down the Fragmentation seems to be working now. A recent report shows that Android 2.1 a.k.a. Eclair leads the market with more than 50% of share.
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