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Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 12:10:23 -0400
From: Phillip Susi <psusi@cfl.rr.com>
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To: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
       Linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Yea old defrag
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I'm writing this to Theodore Ts'o because he has worked on the package 
in the past, and currently maintains e2fsprogs.   I am CCing lkml since 
there are likely to be other interested parties, and there does not seem 
to be a separate list for e2fsprogs.

The old defrag package for doing offline defragmentation of ext2 has not 
been maintained in many years.  About two years ago I fixed a few bugs 
that were causing it to not work on ext3 and placed the changes in 
Ubuntu.  I would like to see this program continue to live since it 
still serves a purpose, but because it has had no upstream maintainer in 
so long, Debian and thus Ubuntu have dropped the package.  I am trying 
to resurrect it.

I was wondering why it was never integrated into e2fsprogs, and if this 
could now be done.  It seems to me that e2fsprogs would be the proper 
home for it, and a neutral upstream for everyone.  If not, then I will 
try to maintain it as an Ubuntu native package in a bazaar branch on 
launchpad.
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