On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 12:21:34PM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> On Jan 16, 2007 21:03 +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > 2. The new entry "goal" is added on ext4_ext_defrag_data structure
> > which is passed to existing ioctl(EXT4_IOC_DEFRAG)
> > as the argument. The kernel starts searching the free blocks
> > from "goal". The command passes the physical block number
> > gotten in the above step(1) to the ioctl.
> >
> > struct ext4_ext_defrag_data {
> > loff_t start_offset; /* start offset to defrag in byte */
> > loff_t defrag_size; /* size of defrag in bytes */
> > ext4_fsblk_t goal; /* block offset for allocation */
> > };
>
> Two things of note:
> - presumably the start_offset and defrag_size should be multiples of the
> filesystem blocksize? If they are not, is it an error or are they
> adjusted to cover whole blocks?
In fact, why aren't the units in blocks? THe filesystem isn't
really going to deal with anything smaller, is it?
Joel
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