From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Barry Naujok <bnaujok@melbourne.sgi.com>
Cc: "'David Chinner'" <dgc@sgi.com>,
"'Dave Kleikamp'" <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>,
"'Alex Tomas'" <alex@clusterfs.com>,
"'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 22:42:57 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061025024257.GA23769@havoc.gtf.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200610250225.MAA23029@larry.melbourne.sgi.com>
On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 12:30:02PM +1000, Barry Naujok wrote:
> Could we have a more abstract method for asking the filesystem where the
> free blocks are and then using the same block addressing to tell the
> fs where to allocate/move the file's data to?
That's fundamentally racy, so you might as well just read the
filesystem metadata from userspace. No need to go through the kernel
for that.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-25 2:42 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
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 [this message]
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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