Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 17:29:09 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: rlrevell@joe-job.com, diegocg@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: dmesg verbosity [was Re: AGP bogosities]
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Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> wrote:
>
>  This old mail: http://marc.free.net.ph/message/20040304.030616.59761bf3.html
>  references a 'move block' ioctl, which is probably the hardest part of the problem,
>  though I didn't find the code referenced in that mail. Andrew ?

That would be http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/ext3-reloc-page.patch

Against 2.4.18, untested ;)

>  With something like this, and some additional bookkeeping to keep track of
>  which files we open in the first few minutes of uptime, we could periodically
>  reorganise the layout back to an optimal state.

Fun project.
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