From: "Aneesh Kumar" <aneesh.kumar@gmail.com>
To: "Andreas Dilger" <adilger@clusterfs.com>
Cc: "Avantika Mathur" <mathur@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Ext4 devel interlock meeting minutes (March 7, 2007)
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2007 14:25:41 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cc723f590703110055m38e1f347scde9b16b8ff9fad7@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070308230326.GI5823@schatzie.adilger.int>
On 3/9/07, Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com> wrote:
> On Mar 08, 2007 10:06 -0800, Avantika Mathur wrote:
> >
>
> > - Aneesh Veetil has been working on a migration tool from block based to
> > extents allocation. He is looking at two options.
> >
> > - Offline Migration: Modify e2fsprogs code to actually be able to create
> > extents. This involves a lot of duplication of ext4 code (btree).
> > e2fsprogs has code for interpreting extents, but code for creating them
> > would have to be duplicated.
> >
> > - Online Migration: Use existing filesystem code to convert to extents -
> > similar to online defragmentation.
>
> I would prefer to implement this using the same code as the online defrag.
> To be useful, the online defrag has to work with block-mapped files anyways.
Is there a tree (git or hg ) which i can use to get a working online defrag ?
-aneesh
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-08 18:06 Ext4 devel interlock meeting minutes (March 7, 2007) Avantika Mathur
2007-03-08 23:03 ` Andreas Dilger
2007-03-11 8:55 ` Aneesh Kumar [this message]
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