From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 23 May 2001 08:06:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 23 May 2001 08:06:42 -0400 Received: from nat-pool-meridian.redhat.com ([199.183.24.200]:3171 "EHLO devserv.devel.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 23 May 2001 08:06:32 -0400 Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 12:37:59 +0100 From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" To: Chris Wedgwood Cc: Richard Gooch , Larry McVoy , Linus Torvalds , Kernel Mailing List , Stephen Tweedie Subject: Re: Getting FS access events Message-ID: <20010523123759.G27177@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <200105140117.f4E1HqN07362@vindaloo.ras.ucalgary.ca> <20010513184509.P2103@work.bitmover.com> <200105140239.f4E2dNd08399@vindaloo.ras.ucalgary.ca> <20010515163701.A13399@metastasis.f00f.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010515163701.A13399@metastasis.f00f.org>; from cw@f00f.org on Tue, May 15, 2001 at 04:37:01PM +1200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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