Jan Claeys wrote: > Indeed, 'smartmontools' for hardware-defects, "fsck" for > filesystem-defects. > > > About doing "live" fsck & defrag on a rw filesystem, IIRC Windows NT has > a system API for doing e.g. atomic "swap 2 sectors" operations; does > 'linux', or any of the filesystem drivers for it, support something like > that?
I think XFS or JFS supports online defragmenting, but no other work has been done in that area due to lack of need. Even the offline defrag package has not been maintained for the last 10 years due to lack of interest. When you don't have a silly problem with fragmentation, there is no motivation to solve the non problem. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
