From: "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
To: TR Reardon <thomas_reardon@hotmail.com>
Cc: "linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org" <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: possible different donor file naming in e4defrag
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 13:39:09 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140815203909.GM2808@birch.djwong.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BLU436-SMTP2540BD5998FEB4A3695A2E4FDE90@phx.gbl>
On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 04:12:40PM -0400, TR Reardon wrote:
> Currently, e4defrag creates a donor file _in the same directory_ of
> the file being defrag'ed.
>
> The problem with this is that the containing directory times are
> changed because of the transient presence of the donor file. Any
> thoughts as to moving the donor to a better location, mount-root, or
> /lost+found? Or, ugh, a configurable location, if non-privileged
> defrag is important?
How about we just reset the directory time? (Or does utime() not work?)
--D
>
> +Reardon
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-08-15 20:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-15 20:12 possible different donor file naming in e4defrag TR Reardon
2014-08-15 20:39 ` Darrick J. Wong [this message]
2014-08-15 20:45 ` TR Reardon
2014-08-15 21:04 ` Andreas Dilger
2014-09-11 19:48 ` TR Reardon
2014-09-11 21:19 ` Andreas Dilger
2014-09-11 22:49 ` TR Reardon
2014-09-11 23:03 ` TR Reardon
2014-09-12 19:41 ` Andreas Dilger
2014-09-13 20:23 ` TR Reardon
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