From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
To: Eric <erpo41@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ext2/3/4 online defrag
Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 22:24:09 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070510052409.GB6375@schatzie.adilger.int> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1178770799.26695.11.camel@eric-laptop>
On May 09, 2007 21:19 -0700, Eric wrote:
> This is my first post to the list. I want to add online defrag support
> to ext2/3/4 just to scratch an itch.
>
> I've searched the archives and googled around, and I've come to the
> following conclusions:
> *An offline defrag tool is available but dangerous.
Yes, old and dangerous.
> *Some patches exist that provide preliminary support for online defrag
> in the ext3 driver, but interest in improving/integrating these patches
> is low.
I don't think that is true. Takashi Sato is actively working on online
defrag, and patches are posted regularly to the linux-ext4 mailing list.
I'd recommend that any work being done be spent in improving those
patches instead of starting from scratch.
Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
Principal Software Engineer
Cluster File Systems, Inc.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-10 5:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-10 4:19 ext2/3/4 online defrag Eric
2007-05-10 5:24 ` Andreas Dilger [this message]
2007-05-10 9:20 ` Takashi Sato
2007-05-10 11:50 ` Eric
2007-05-17 16:11 ` Jan Kara
2007-05-18 5:11 ` Eric
2007-05-21 10:33 ` Jan Kara
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