Re: Volunteers needed: Work. Lots of Work. [defrag]
This package is not part of debian right now due to the known problems. It
is a highly desirable tool though.
On Sun, 26 Jan 1997, Vincent Renardias wrote:
vincent >
vincent >On Sun, 26 Jan 1997, Christoph Lameter wrote:
vincent >
vincent >> defrag Needs a major Revision/Fixup of the sourcecode and made
vincent >> available for other architectures than i386. This is
vincent >> something for an expert.
vincent >
vincent > Remy Card (the implementor of the ext2 filesystem) said a while back
vincent >on fr.comp.os.linux that this software will probably not be updated to a
vincent >long time. Also this "tool" is potentially dangerous (segfaulted twice on
vincent >me while defragmenting a partition).
vincent >
vincent > So, if nobody really _maintain_ this package (I do not mean Debian
vincent >packaging here, I mean _real_ maintainance) I suggest we drop this
vincent >package..
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