Bug#678705: RFS: e2defrag/0.80 ITP: #678598
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.
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Regards,
Dmitrijs.
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