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    SubjectRe: inodes: Support generic defragmentation
    On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 11:17:02AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
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    > On the other hand I would like to keep the option to be more aggressive
    > for soft page offlining where it's useful and nobody cares about
    > the cost.

    I'm not sure I understand what the goals are for "soft page
    offlining". Can you say a bit more about that?

    > Or the "let's add a updatedb" hint approach has the problem that
    > it won't cover a lot of other programs (as Linus always points out
    > these new interfaces rarely actually get used)

    Sure, but the number of programs that scan all of the files in a file
    system and would need this sort of hint are actually pretty small.
    Uptdatedb and backup programs are pretty much about it.

    - Ted


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