e4defrag support?

Michał Piotrowski mkkp4x4 at gmail.com
Tue Oct 5 23:13:20 UTC 2010


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.

>
> -Eric

Regards,
Michal


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