From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
To: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>,
Barry Naujok <bnaujok@melbourne.sgi.com>,
'Dave Kleikamp' <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>,
'Alex Tomas' <alex@clusterfs.com>, 'Jan Kara' <jack@suse.cz>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Ext3 online defrag
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 09:37:37 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061026133737.GA31996@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061026063648.GE8394166@melbourne.sgi.com>
On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 04:36:48PM +1000, David Chinner wrote:
> > > Remember, I'm not just talking about defrag - I'm talking about
> > > an interface that is actually useful to apps that might care
> > > about how data is laid out on disk but the applications writers
> > > don't know anyhting about how filesystem X or Y or Z is
> > > implemented. Putting the burden of learning about fileystem
> > > internals on application developers is not the correct solution.
If all you want is something for applicaiton developers, about all you
can do is to tell the filesystem, "create the file so that it will be
quickly accessed after accessing this file or this directory". I
really don't see the point of having the application specify block
numbers if you're also claiming the applicaiton isn't going to know
anything about the filesystem layout --- or even the RAID layout of
the filesystem. I don't think it's at **all** useful to be
half-pregnant on this score.
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-26 13:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20061023122710.GA12034@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
2006-10-23 14:16 ` [RFC] Ext3 online defrag Theodore Tso
2006-10-23 14:31 ` Alex Tomas
2006-10-23 14:48 ` Andreas Dilger
2006-10-23 14:55 ` Jan Kara
2006-10-23 14:51 ` Jan Kara
2006-10-23 15:01 ` Eric Sandeen
2006-10-24 4:14 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-10-24 13:59 ` David Chinner
2006-10-24 14:51 ` Dave Kleikamp
2006-10-24 16:01 ` David Chinner
2006-10-24 16:26 ` Dave Kleikamp
2006-10-25 1:18 ` David Chinner
2006-10-25 2:30 ` Barry Naujok
2006-10-25 2:42 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-10-25 4:27 ` David Chinner
2006-10-25 4:48 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-10-25 5:38 ` David Chinner
2006-10-25 6:01 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-10-25 8:11 ` David Chinner
2006-10-25 17:00 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-10-26 1:40 ` David Chinner
2006-10-26 3:33 ` Theodore Tso
2006-10-26 6:36 ` David Chinner
2006-10-26 13:37 ` Theodore Tso [this message]
2006-10-26 14:40 ` Dave Kleikamp
2006-10-26 11:37 ` Jan Kara
2006-10-27 1:32 ` David Chinner
2006-10-24 14:52 ` Eric Sandeen
2006-10-24 19:44 ` Theodore Tso
2006-10-24 20:31 ` Russell Cattelan
2006-10-24 23:00 ` Andreas Dilger
2006-10-25 14:54 ` Jan Kara
2006-10-25 17:02 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-10-25 17:58 ` Jan Kara
2006-10-25 18:08 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-10-25 18:25 ` Jan Kara
2006-10-25 18:33 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-10-26 9:30 ` Andreas Dilger
2006-10-25 2:09 ` David Chinner
2006-10-23 14:45 ` Jan Kara
2006-10-23 15:14 ` Andreas Dilger
2006-10-23 16:03 ` Jan Kara
2006-10-23 17:29 ` Andreas Dilger
2006-10-25 18:36 ` Jan Kara
2006-10-25 18:41 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-10-26 15:25 ` Jörn Engel
2006-10-24 4:13 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-10-24 4:21 ` Chris Wedgwood
2006-10-24 10:09 ` Jan Kara
2006-10-27 7:23 sho
2006-10-27 7:44 ` Alex Tomas
2006-10-27 13:53 ` Eric Sandeen
2006-10-27 14:05 ` Alex Tomas
2006-10-27 14:24 ` Eric Sandeen
2006-10-27 14:39 ` Alex Tomas
2006-11-15 9:54 ` Takashi Sato
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