From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Dilger Subject: Re: [RFC][take 4] e2fsprogs: Add ext4migrate Date: Sat, 5 May 2007 23:17:59 -0600 Message-ID: <20070506051759.GP6220@schatzie.adilger.int> References: <11782700042368-git-send-email-aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org To: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" Return-path: Received: from mail.clusterfs.com ([206.168.112.78]:35647 "EHLO mail.clusterfs.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754597AbXEFFSD (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 May 2007 01:18:03 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <11782700042368-git-send-email-aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org On May 04, 2007 14:43 +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote: > Changes from from my previous patches are as follows: > a) support for files with holes > b) use the block iterator present in libext2fs > c) don't mark the indirect blocks as unused early. If we mark the > the blocks unused, they can be resued for extent index. If we later > fail to migrate, the indirect blocks content would be overwritten. If this code could also (or optionally just) increase the size of inodes it would be very useful. AFAIK right now it will only change the inodes from block-mapped to extent-mapped? Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Principal Software Engineer Cluster File Systems, Inc.