From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Stephan Kulow <coolo@suse.de>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: file allocation problem
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:58:32 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090716155832.GA6605@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200907161331.17623.coolo@suse.de>
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 01:31:17PM +0200, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I played around with ext4 online defrag on 2.6.31-rc3 and noticed a problem.
> The core is this:
Was your filesystem originally an ext3 filesystme which was converted
over to ext4? What features are currently enabled (sending a copy of
the output of "dumpe2fs -h /dev/XXX" would be helpful.)
If it is the case that this was originally an ext3 filesystem,
e4defrag does have some definite limitations that will prevent it from
doing a great job in such a case. I'm guessing that's what's going on
here.
> Now that I call fragmented! Calling e4defrag again gives me
> 34->28 and now it moved _parts_
I'm not sure what you mean by moving _parts_?
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-16 16:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-16 11:31 file allocation problem Stephan Kulow
2009-07-16 15:58 ` Theodore Tso [this message]
2009-07-16 17:43 ` Stephan Kulow
2009-07-17 1:12 ` Theodore Tso
2009-07-17 4:32 ` Andreas Dilger
2009-07-17 5:31 ` Stephan Kulow
2009-07-17 5:17 ` Stephan Kulow
2009-07-17 14:26 ` Theodore Tso
2009-07-17 18:02 ` Stephan Kulow
2009-07-17 21:14 ` Andreas Dilger
2009-07-18 21:16 ` Stephan Kulow
2009-07-19 22:45 ` Ron Johnson
2009-07-20 21:18 ` Andreas Dilger
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