Re: when will it end?

[David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com>]

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| current repacker code state is 'unsupported', it is even removed from the
| latest -mm kernels.   Namesys plans are to make the repacker proprietary.

Really?

I sort of thought the priority was to get into the mainstream kernel, so
this seems an odd move.  Why do something that decreases your benchmark?
~ And how much would people be willing to pay you when most Unix
filesystems are rarely (if ever) repacked and Windows (even DOS, I
think) comes with a free repacker of its own?

The current state of the repacker suggests that the tradeoff is not
worth it.  If it takes longer than 2 days for an initial repack of a
filesystem like mine, the total amount of time I have to spend waiting
for the system while it's dog-slow and repacking is likely more than the
time I'd save by having it be slightly faster the rest of the time, or
even the time I'd have to work at minimum wage to buy more storage to
cover space the repacker could save me.

Compare this to Norton SpeedDisk, which takes about half an hour to
defrag a 20-40 gig FAT32/NTFS drive -- the first time.  After that, if
run daily, it takes 10-15 mins.

But also, is chunk_size measured in megabytes?  (mine was 512)  Does it
mean what I think it means?

If the repacker is still free next time I go on vacation, I'll try again
- -- see if a week or two will straighten things out.
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