Hi,
In my opinion, to keep the ioctl simple and small is very important
for ease of maintenance. So I would rather not support indirect
block files in the ioctl.
Instead, I can add the call of the migration ioctl to my defrag tool in order
to defragment indirect block files. How do you think
On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 12:38 +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
Yes. On the other hand I believe that some people would like to use
defragmentation but stay with ext3. For them conversion to extents is
no-go.
[...]
I've written a patch that defragments non-extent files but after
discussion with
On 5/19/07, Eric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 18:36 +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
The reason why i am asking this is to understand the
usefulness of doing a ext4migrate followed by defrag.
[...]
Also looking at the version 0.4 I see that defrag ioctl only work if we
have
Hi Aneesh san,
While doing online defragmentation do we move the blocks corresponding to extent index ?
The reason why i am asking this is to understand the
usefulness of doing a ext4migrate followed by defrag. I understand that defragmentation
in general will improve the performance. But with
Hello,
While doing online defragmentation do we move the blocks corresponding to
extent index ? The reason why i am asking this is to understand the
usefulness of doing a ext4migrate followed by defrag. I understand that
defragmentation in general will improve the performance. But with
Takashi Sato wrote:
Hi Aneesh san,
In my opinion, to keep the ioctl simple and small is very important
for ease of maintenance. So I would rather not support indirect
block files in the ioctl.
Instead, I can add the call of the migration ioctl to my defrag tool in
order
to defragment
On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 12:38 +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
Yes. On the other hand I believe that some people would like to use
defragmentation but stay with ext3. For them conversion to extents is
no-go.
[...]
I've written a patch that defragments non-extent files but after
discussion with XFS
On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 18:36 +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
The reason why i am asking this is to understand the
usefulness of doing a ext4migrate followed by defrag.
[...]
Also looking at the version 0.4 I see that defrag ioctl only work if we
have EXT4_EXTENTS_FL flag set.
ext4migrate is
On May 18, 2007 13:19 -0700, Eric wrote:
A defragmentation routine makes files contiguous on disk. A better
defragmentation routine intelligently locates data structures on the
disk so that files and directories are placed to minimize latency and
maximize throughput now, AND so that this will
