e4defrag support?

Michał Piotrowski mkkp4x4 at gmail.com
Wed Oct 6 05:40:01 UTC 2010


W dniu 6 października 2010 05:01 użytkownik Eric Sandeen
<sandeen at redhat.com> napisał:
> 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 ...

I already built my own version.

>
> -Eric
>

Regards,
Michal


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