On 24/06/12 23:58, Nicholas Breen wrote: > 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? >
The obvious, you would use e2defrag for ext2, ext3 & ext4 without extents. But the question which one to prefer for ext4 with extents still stands. -- Regards, Dmitrijs. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
