From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757223AbZBSWsv (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:48:51 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755003AbZBSWsm (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:48:42 -0500 Received: from smtp3.ono.com ([62.42.230.176]:58589 "EHLO resmaa14.ono.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754825AbZBSWsm (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:48:42 -0500 Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 23:48:38 +0100 From: "J.A. =?UTF-8?B?TWFnYWxsw7Nu?=" To: LKML Subject: Status of ext4 tools Message-ID: <20090219234838.4c06c98b@werewolf.home> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.0cvs67 (GTK+ 2.15.4; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi all... I'm following the threads on ext4, but I have a couple questions, and perhaps this can be a thread to bookmark with all the answers people need... ;) I have migrated some partitions to ext4 in several boxes (even my /home on the One...and works fast), but... - Where is the 'official' source for e4defrag ? - I've read that e4defrag needs in-kernel support. Is it already in mainline ? From what kernel version ? - I have seen that some distros refer to a package called 'e4fsprogs'. Does that thing exist ? Where ? - Booting: - There seem to be patches for grub http://lists.openwall.net/linux-ext4/2008/11/19/8 to boot ext4 - and a Google SoC called 'grub4ext4'. -and there is also grub2 (ext4 support in svn). What would you recommend ? That's what I miss to move completely to ext4 ;) Apart from that, it works pretty fine. The thing that most surprised me was that after the needed fsck, it had converted files with contiguous blocks to big extents ;). Nice. TIA -- J.A. Magallon \ Software is like sex: \ It's better when it's free Mandriva Linux release 2009.1 (Cooker) for x86_64 Linux 2.6.28.2-desktop-1mnb (gcc 4.3.2 (GCC) #1 Wed Jan