From: Kazuya Mio <k-mio@sx.jp.nec.com>
To: Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@wpkg.org>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/11 RESEND] e4defrag: fragmentation score rework and cleanups
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 14:13:41 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DFAE285.9010503@sx.jp.nec.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DF9BC52.40203@wpkg.org>
2011/06/16 17:18, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> I noticed that when using e4defrag on such a file-based image, while the
> guest is running (i.e. the file is in use), all IO from that guest to
> the disk (disk is this file) is "frozen".
>
> In other words, as soon as we run e4defrag, any guest writes to that
> file will only complete if e4defrag finishes. As the images can be quite
> big, it can mean guest IO can be frozen even for hours.
>
>
> Is it a known/intended limitation (at least, it behaved like this when I
> tried e4defrag a few months ago)?
Thank you for the feedback. I will try to reproduce this problem later.
Regards,
Kazuya Mio
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-17 5:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-15 20:31 [PATCH 00/11 RESEND] e4defrag: fragmentation score rework and cleanups Tomasz Chmielewski
2011-06-16 5:10 ` Kazuya Mio
2011-06-16 8:18 ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2011-06-17 5:13 ` Kazuya Mio [this message]
2011-06-17 13:08 ` Greg Freemyer
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2011-06-15 6:33 Kazuya Mio
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