From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][take 4] e2fsprogs: Add ext4migrate
Date: Mon, 07 May 2007 08:56:11 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <463E9C53.8000503@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070506051759.GP6220@schatzie.adilger.int>
Andreas Dilger wrote:
> 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?
>
>
That is correct. My next step is to enhance the tool to support
migration to large inodes.
-aneesh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-07 3:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-04 9:13 [RFC][take 4] e2fsprogs: Add ext4migrate Aneesh Kumar K.V
[not found] ` <eb16ba5f2c6f399ea747169097434ae84443728f.1178262585.git.aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2007-05-04 9:13 ` [PATCH 1/4] Add unix COW io manager Aneesh Kumar K.V
[not found] ` <344eabfd05e36374043e8cd0b4e166a66f88bec6.1178262586.git.aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2007-05-04 9:13 ` [PATCH 2/4] Add extent related functions Aneesh Kumar K.V
[not found] ` <1dcc9dea2106570ec314b59bf69e7e3720818a94.1178262586.git.aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2007-05-04 9:13 ` [PATCH 3/4] e2fsprogs: Add ext4migrate Aneesh Kumar K.V
[not found] ` <69f2894044fa7c5ad14a59c22e603bc5529dce2a.1178262586.git.aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2007-05-04 9:13 ` [PATCH 4/4] Add ext4replay tool Aneesh Kumar K.V
2007-05-07 13:01 ` [PATCH 1/4] Add unix COW io manager Theodore Tso
2007-05-06 5:17 ` [RFC][take 4] e2fsprogs: Add ext4migrate Andreas Dilger
2007-05-07 3:26 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V [this message]
2007-05-07 13:20 ` Theodore Tso
2007-05-07 13:46 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2007-05-07 15:57 ` Theodore Tso
2007-05-07 21:01 ` Andreas Dilger
2007-05-07 13:59 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
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