e4defrag support?

Eric Sandeen sandeen at redhat.com
Tue Oct 5 22:55:16 UTC 2010


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.

-Eric
 
> Regards,
> Michal



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