On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 02:31:23PM -0400, Phillip Susi wrote: > On 06/24/2012 12:00 PM, Roger Leigh wrote: > > This was always a tool which needed to be used with great caution, > > and was removed for good reason. Is this safe to use with all > > ext2, ext3 and ext4 filesystems? > > Obviously there may be bugs, and a crash in mid defrag likely will leave you > with a hopelessly corrupted fs, but yes, it is working with all modern ext4 > features. I'm kicking around an idea to log enough information to allow for > recovery after a crash, but this would significantly slow down the process.
There is already an ext4-specific (depends on creation with -O extent) e4defrag tool in e2fsprogs since 1.42~WIP-2011-07-02-1. Is there a reason you would use one tool over the other? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
