Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 2 Jan 2009 11:00:02 +1100 | From | Dave Chinner <> | Subject | Re: Defrag support for inodes / dentries etc |
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On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 05:04:04PM -0600, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Tue, 30 Dec 2008, Pekka Enberg wrote: > > > > I'll need to revert to yesterday's linux-next I think. Pekka, has > > > that stuff been dropped? > > > > Yup, there hasn't been any activity after the last merge window so I'm > > not expecting to be able to merge it for 2.6.29. As per linux-next > > rules, I dropped the 2.6.30 material until the merge window closes. > > The code is in topic/slub-defrag of slab.git, though. > > Well the problem currently is that there is no driver for these features. > There has been a request for this functionality for a long time but both > the primary drivers for this (Dave Chinner and I) are no longer with the > company for which we started the project. I'd be glad to continue this > if there would be an interest by the filesystem developers.
Certainly. The problem hasn't gone away and anyone trying to run a busy fileserver while know of the problem....
Cheers,
Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@fromorbit.com
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