From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joakim Ziegler Subject: Re: What happened to e4defrag relevant file and free space defrag? Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2014 13:40:42 -0500 Message-ID: <540760AA.4060900@terminalmx.com> References: <53F87552.6050000@terminalmx.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE To: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, Akira Fujita Return-path: Received: from famine.copyleft.no ([188.94.218.115]:56711 "EHLO mail9.copyleft.no" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753941AbaICSks (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Sep 2014 14:40:48 -0400 In-Reply-To: <53F87552.6050000@terminalmx.com> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 23/08/14, 6:04, Joakim Ziegler wrote: > I'm using ext4 on quite large filesystems, for large image sequences.= Some times > these file systems fill up, and things get fragmented and a lot slowe= r. > > When reading this presentation from Linuxcon Japan 2010: > > https://events.linuxfoundation.org/slides/2010/linuxcon_japan/linuxco= n_jp2010_fujita.pdf > > > I see references to "relevant file defrag", which would be useable fo= r me to > defrag image sequences to get them in sequence, specifically: > > "Patches related to relevant file defrag (e4defrag -r) are under revi= ew." > > Also, about free space defrag, it says: > > "Implement free space defragmentation (e4defrag -f). We might impleme= nt this > feature when the relevant defrag development is completed." > > Both of these, but especially relevant file defrag, would be very use= ful to > solve the problems I'm facing. What happened to the patches that were= under > review? Was anything done? Was development of these features abandone= d? Is there > any chance of any of them being implemented in the relatively near fu= ture? Bumping this, does anyone have any idea? Also copying Akira Fujita. --=20 Joakim Ziegler - Supervisor de postproducci=F3n - Terminal joakim@terminalmx.com - 044 55 2971 8514 - 5264 0864 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html