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From: mjt@nysv.org Markus =?unknown-8bit?q?T=F6rnqvist?=
Subject: Re: Repacker for reiser4?
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 21:36:32 +0300
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To: Will Smith <will@willsmith.org>
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On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 01:42:42AM +0800, Will Smith wrote:
>
>As far as I can tell (can anybody confirm/deny), it's up to userspace
>to manually toggle the 'direction' flag as required before starting
>the repacker - the direction seems to default to 0 ('backward') on each 
>mount.

Sure seems that way...

>sequence of operations on each filesystem.  And then, whether the
>repacker fixes things for reiser4.  Naturally, ext3 fragmentation
>cannot be fixed :)

I heard a rumor that ext3's fragmentation is fixed by fsck, can anyone
deny or confirm this?

How do you measure ext3's fragmentation, btw?
(An old reiserfs user asking ;)

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mjt