From: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 3/3] Online defrag command
Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 14:56:21 +0100
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On Thu, Feb 08 2007, Takashi Sato wrote:
> The defrag command.  Usage is as follows:
> o Put the multiple files closer together.
>   # e4defrag -r directory-name
> o Defrag for a single file.
>   # e4defrag file-name
> o Defrag for all files on ext4.
>   # e4defrag device-name

Would it be possible to provide support for putting multiple files close
together? Ala

# e4defrag file1 file2 file3 ... fileN

I'm thinking boot speedup, gather the list of read files and put them
close on disk.

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Jens Axboe