e4defrag support?

[Eric Sandeen]

Michał Piotrowski wrote:
> 2010/10/6 Eric Sandeen <sandeen at redhat.com>:
>> Michał Piotrowski wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm curious why e4defrag isn't enabled in e2fsprogs. Are there any
>>> problems with this tool?
>> It's had really limited testing, and the kernel interface has had
>> some problems in the past (though I guess that's irrelevant to
>> shipping the userspace)
>>
>> I guess it's a little of a chicken-and-egg problem; no binary, no
>> testing; no testing, I hesitate to unleash the binary, which has
>> serious data integrity implications.
>>
>> I think it's going to need some concentrated development & testing
>> love to get to full readiness.
> 
> I can help with testing. I have some experience in creating test
> scripts/cases etc.

cool!  I suppose I could turn it on in rawhide, or you could just
build your own e2fsprogs to get it ...

-Eric

>> -Eric
> 
> Regards,
> Michal