Re: Getting FS access events

Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-05-23T12:06:51Z

Hi,

On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 04:37:01PM +1200, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 08:39:23PM -0600, Richard Gooch wrote:
>
> Yeah, we need a decent unfragmenter. We can do that now with
> bmap().
>
> SCT wrote a defragger for ext2 but it only handles 1k blocks :(

Actually, I wrote it for extfs, and Alexey Vovenko ported it to ext2.
Extfs *really* needed a defragmenter, because it had weird behaviour
patterns which included allocating all of the blocks of a file in
descending disk blocks at times.

Cheers,
Stephen