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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

  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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