Re: Bug#678705: RFS: e2defrag/0.80 ITP: #678598
On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 09:14:47PM -0400, Phillip Susi wrote:
> Exactly. I was planning on announcing it once it's in the archive to call
> for testing and feedback. The usage of experimental is still unclear to me.
If it's of release quality, then use unstable. If it needs wider
testing before you're confident it can go into unstable, then
upload to experimental so others can try it out. But if it is known
to eat filesystems, then it's not suitable for either, really.
Do we actually need an ext2 defragmenter? I don't want to sound too
pessimistic, but maintaining the integrity of a filesystem is perhaps
one of the most critical functions of the system, and e2defrag has a
bad history here--I'd need quite some convincing before I'd consider
it safe to include in Debian for end-users to use.
Regards,
Roger
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