lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2001]   [May]   [23]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: Getting FS access events
Hi,

On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 04:37:01PM +1200, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 08:39:23PM -0600, Richard Gooch wrote:
>
> Yeah, we need a decent unfragmenter. We can do that now with
> bmap().
>
> SCT wrote a defragger for ext2 but it only handles 1k blocks :(

Actually, I wrote it for extfs, and Alexey Vovenko ported it to ext2.
Extfs *really* needed a defragmenter, because it had weird behaviour
patterns which included allocating all of the blocks of a file in
descending disk blocks at times.

Cheers,
Stephen
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2005-03-22 12:53    [W:0.145 / U:0.112 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site