From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" Subject: Re: Online defragmentation and ext4migrate Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 16:07:29 +0530 Message-ID: <46517669.50804@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: <464DA4ED.9040408@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <019c01c79b92$627b3280$4168010a@bsd.tnes.nec.co.jp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org To: Takashi Sato Return-path: Received: from ausmtp05.au.ibm.com ([202.81.18.154]:42839 "EHLO ausmtp05.au.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754950AbXEUK70 (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 May 2007 06:59:26 -0400 Received: from sd0109e.au.ibm.com (d23rh905.au.ibm.com [202.81.18.225]) by ausmtp05.au.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l4LB0tG97807082 for ; Mon, 21 May 2007 21:00:55 +1000 Received: from d23av01.au.ibm.com (d23av01.au.ibm.com [9.190.250.242]) by sd0109e.au.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v8.3) with ESMTP id l4LAxgC8066966 for ; Mon, 21 May 2007 21:02:47 +1000 Received: from d23av01.au.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d23av01.au.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id l4LAbaCl028504 for ; Mon, 21 May 2007 20:37:37 +1000 In-Reply-To: <019c01c79b92$627b3280$4168010a@bsd.tnes.nec.co.jp> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org 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 indirect block files. How do you think of it? > That should be fine. So i will start moving the ext4migrate code as a ext4 ioctl and later will send you a patch to the defrag tool that will migrate and defrag. -aneesh