Re: What happened to e4defrag relevant file and free space defrag?

[Joakim Ziegler <joakim@terminalmx.com>]

On 23/08/14, 6:04, Joakim Ziegler wrote:
> I'm using ext4 on quite large filesystems, for large image sequences. Some times
> these file systems fill up, and things get fragmented and a lot slower.
>
> When reading this presentation from Linuxcon Japan 2010:
>
> https://events.linuxfoundation.org/slides/2010/linuxcon_japan/linuxcon_jp2010_fujita.pdf
>
>
> I see references to "relevant file defrag", which would be useable for me to
> defrag image sequences to get them in sequence, specifically:
>
> "Patches related to relevant file defrag (e4defrag -r) are under review."
>
> Also, about free space defrag, it says:
>
> "Implement free space defragmentation (e4defrag -f). We might implement this
> feature when the relevant defrag development is completed."
>
> Both of these, but especially relevant file defrag, would be very useful to
> solve the problems I'm facing. What happened to the patches that were under
> review? Was anything done? Was development of these features abandoned? Is there
> any chance of any of them being implemented in the relatively near future?

Bumping this, does anyone have any idea? Also copying Akira Fujita.

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