From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Alex Tomas <alex@clusterfs.com>
Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Ext3 online defrag
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 00:14:33 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061024041433.GB12506@havoc.gtf.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3vembnlwz.fsf@bzzz.home.net>
On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 06:31:40PM +0400, Alex Tomas wrote:
> isn't that a kernel responsbility to find/allocate target blocks?
> wouldn't it better to specify desirable target group and minimal
> acceptable chunk of free blocks?
The kernel doesn't have enough knowledge to know whether or not the
defragger prefers one blkdev location over another.
When you are trying to consolidate blocks, you must specify the
destination as well as source blocks.
Certainly, to prevent corruption and other nastiness, you must fail if
the destination isn't available...
(ext2meta did all this...)
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-24 4:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20061023122710.GA12034@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
2006-10-23 14:16 ` [RFC] Ext3 online defrag Theodore Tso
2006-10-23 14:31 ` Alex Tomas
2006-10-23 14:48 ` Andreas Dilger
2006-10-23 14:55 ` Jan Kara
2006-10-23 14:51 ` Jan Kara
2006-10-23 15:01 ` Eric Sandeen
2006-10-24 4:14 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2006-10-24 13:59 ` David Chinner
2006-10-24 14:51 ` Dave Kleikamp
2006-10-24 16:01 ` David Chinner
2006-10-24 16:26 ` Dave Kleikamp
2006-10-25 1:18 ` David Chinner
2006-10-25 2:30 ` Barry Naujok
2006-10-25 2:42 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-10-25 4:27 ` David Chinner
2006-10-25 4:48 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-10-25 5:38 ` David Chinner
2006-10-25 6:01 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-10-25 8:11 ` David Chinner
2006-10-25 17:00 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-10-26 1:40 ` David Chinner
2006-10-26 3:33 ` Theodore Tso
2006-10-26 6:36 ` David Chinner
2006-10-26 13:37 ` Theodore Tso
2006-10-26 14:40 ` Dave Kleikamp
2006-10-26 11:37 ` Jan Kara
2006-10-27 1:32 ` David Chinner
2006-10-24 14:52 ` Eric Sandeen
2006-10-24 19:44 ` Theodore Tso
2006-10-24 20:31 ` Russell Cattelan
2006-10-24 23:00 ` Andreas Dilger
2006-10-25 14:54 ` Jan Kara
2006-10-25 17:02 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-10-25 17:58 ` Jan Kara
2006-10-25 18:08 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-10-25 18:25 ` Jan Kara
2006-10-25 18:33 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-10-26 9:30 ` Andreas Dilger
2006-10-25 2:09 ` David Chinner
2006-10-23 14:45 ` Jan Kara
2006-10-23 15:14 ` Andreas Dilger
2006-10-23 16:03 ` Jan Kara
2006-10-23 17:29 ` Andreas Dilger
2006-10-25 18:36 ` Jan Kara
2006-10-25 18:41 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-10-26 15:25 ` Jörn Engel
2006-10-27 7:23 sho
2006-10-27 7:44 ` Alex Tomas
2006-10-27 13:53 ` Eric Sandeen
2006-10-27 14:05 ` Alex Tomas
2006-10-27 14:24 ` Eric Sandeen
2006-10-27 14:39 ` Alex Tomas
2006-11-15 9:54 ` Takashi Sato
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